Long Thin Dawn - Gordon Lightfoot

I’ve seen the hills of Frisco and the streets of Montreal

In every town I’ve been to I’ve had someone to call

From Winnipeg to Edmonton, Vancouver to St. Paul

I’ve had so many good friends I couldn’t miss them all

In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

Last night I came to Denver beneath the snowcapped ridge

I thought about my darling as I stood beneath the bridge

And there were times I made her cry but I guess by now she’s learned

That any time I’ve wandered I always have returned

In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

Right now I’m on a highway just east of Omaha

Riding shotgun on the biggest rig you ever saw

With forty tons of pig iron and a trucker known as Bill

All the way to Windsor, we’ve got some miles to kill

In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

While climbing up a hillside, Bill drops her down a gear

And the engine sings so sweetly 'tis music to my ear

I tell him how I long to be just like him if I can

Driving like the restless wind across this precious land

In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

Says Bill, «The air is clean tonight», as he puffs a big cigar

«And if this rig keeps rolling, my boy you’ll travel far

But when you are a trucker you’ll come to realize

The only thing a man can do is watch the world go by»

In that long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again

That long thin dawn, that long thin dawn is coming on again