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DEMPSTER HIGHWAY
Words & Music
by Tim Hus
Copyright Tim Hus Music 2008
Sittin’ in a café along about halfway on the all
weather route
Drinkin’ coffee black in a Lode King hat and a Marlboro
hangin from his mouth
He said “I’m done this is my last run I’m
cashin’ in my snow chains
I’ve done ten and eight on the road of slate and I ain’t
gonna do it again”
I’ve seen ‘em come and I’ve seen ‘em
go two time and double back
All the way to Ft. Macpherson, blowin’ smoke from both
of my stacks
I’ve done my time on the DEW line as a lonesome highway
wrangler
And I’m tired of growin’ my mutton chops like a
Yukon Riverboat gambler
Chorus:
Through the ice and the snow at fourty below I barrel right
through the storm
Across the arctic circle white knuckle ‘till my gears
are worn
And the damned old Dempster Highway couldn’t get the best
of me
Way up on top of the world truckin’ on the Kamakaze
Skagway Sue with the wolf tatoo she put a little chew in her
lip
She tucked away the can of Copenhagen Brand and said “Ive
been tryin’ to quit”
But the nicotine like the eagle plains gets right into your
blood
And I’m hooked on the tone of the big Mac’s groan
growlin’ down in the mud
She’d be the first to tell of the curse of the diesel
and the alloy steel
On the right-of-way to Mackenzie Bay there’s a magnetic
pull on the wheel
There’s strange things done in the midnight sun by those
who plow the roads
So say a prayer on a jacknife rig and keep the treads underneath
your loads
Chorus
Instrumental
The coffee now was down to the grounds and the talk was a-getting’
low
There’s a blown valve on the number 12 came the crackle
on the radio
If you’re goin’ South you better go now before the
North takes a hold
You better think quick ‘cause up in Inuvik they’re
waitin’ for the big wheels to roll
Chorus
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