They closed down the stockyards and they tore up the tracks Now it’s faded away to just a name on the map A café and a four-way and a hotel saloon Regrets of the memories that never came true But the billboard at the post office says we’re coming through On the never ending highways great plains tour
The diesels and the Greyhounds, they know how it feels We spend our nights on the stage and our days at the wheel There’s smoke on the bull fiddle and horse hair on the bow Mileage on the strings and rosin on the road Tuned flat to the flatland on a stretch straight and true On the never ending highways great plains tour
Chorus: From Fairbanks to Flin Flon we’ll play them all Hotels and barrooms, rodeos and halls A string of one-nighters one day at a time We’ll play them all Spider and I
From the dark territory on the bison bone range All the Forts and the Lacs, the Prince’s and Saints From a Bar Named Sue down to Boundary Creek And the Mosquito River Inn, we spent a month there one week And if the Sasquatch hadn’t burned down we would’ve played there to On the never ending highways great plains tour
All the kickers and the cowboys out on the edge We’ll tune up tonight and play one more set The empty glass bottles are all in a line We made friends across the country a table at a time And we’ll see them the next time that we’re passing through On the never ending highways great plains tour