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Artist/Band: Gordon Lightfoot
Lyrics for Song: Long Thin Dawn
Lyrics for Album: Back Here on Earth [1968]



That long thin dawn

That long thin dawn

Is comin' on again

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



And that long thin dawn

That long thin dawn

Is comin' on again



Last night I came to Denver beneath the snow-capped ridge

I thought about my darlin' 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



And that long thin dawn

That long thin dawn

Is comin' 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



And that long thin dawn

That long thin dawn

Is comin' on again



While climbin' up a hillside, Bill drops 'er 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

Drivin' like the restless wind across this precious land



Says Bill "the air is clean tonight" as he puffs a big cigar

"And if this rig keeps rollin', 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"



And that long thin dawn

That long thin dawn

Is comin' on again



That long thin dawn

That long thin dawn

Is comin' on again


Album Lyrics: Back Here on Earth [1968]


Gordon Lightfoot
"Back Here on Earth [1968]"


1. Circle Is Small
2. Cold Hands From New York
3. Don't Beat Me Down
4. Gypsy
5. Long Thin Dawn
6. Marie Christine
7. Unsettled Ways