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That long thin dawn |
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That long thin dawn |
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Is comin' on again |
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I've seen the hills of frisco and the streets of montreal |
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In every town i've been to i've had someone to call |
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From winnipeg to edmonton, vancouver to st. paul |
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I've had so many good friends i couldn't miss them all |
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And that long thin dawn |
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That long thin dawn |
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Is comin' on again |
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Last night i came to denver beneath the snow-capped ridge |
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I thought about my darlin' as i stood beneath the bridge |
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And there were times i made her cry but i guess by now she's learned |
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That any time i've wandered i always have returned |
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And that long thin dawn |
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That long thin dawn |
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Is comin' on again |
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Right now i'm on a highway just east of omaha |
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Riding shotgun on the biggest rig you ever saw |
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With forty tons of pig iron and a trucker known as bill |
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All the way to windsor, we've got some miles to kill |
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And that long thin dawn |
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That long thin dawn |
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Is comin' on again |
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While climbin' up a hillside, bill drops 'er down a gear |
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And the engine sings so sweetly 'tis music to my ear |
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I tell him how i long to be just like him if i can |
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Drivin' like the restless wind across this precious land |
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Says bill 'the air is clean tonight' as he puffs a big cigar |
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'and if this rig keeps rollin', my boy you'll travel far |
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But when you are a trucker you'll come to realize |
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The only thing a man can do is watch the world go by' |
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And that long thin dawn |
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That long thin dawn |
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Is comin' on again |
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That long thin dawn |
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That long thin dawn |
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Is comin' on again |
