I'm going down to Feather River Canyon gotta go down Donner Summit is closed

Another eighty miles and I sure am lonesome cause I'll be late gettin' home

Roll truck roll take me to my baby I'm tired of bein' alone

Roll truck roll I wanna see my baby roll me truck roll me on home



One of these days I'm gonna quit this old road when I've saved enough money

Gonna buy me a place back home and live a little just me and my kids and my honey

Mama said that little Tom is not doing too well in school

Said he keeps talking about his daddy that he hardly knows

The teacher said that he just sits at his desk all day and draws the pictures of trucks

I guess I know what that means and what it shows

Why I'm not home three months out of the year

And here lately it's showing on me too

Oh I saw a lot of the country at first and I really like it then

But anymore there's just none of it new

Oh what a long old haul this has been and that rain most of the way

And now it's beginning to pour

Sure looks cold that wind blowing up through that canyon

But I gotta keep my spirits up so I guess I'll just sing a little more

I'm going down to Feather River Canyon...