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Sean McGaughey & Nick Howell © March 2020

My good friend Nick and I wrote this together over zoom during the early days of the pandemic lockdown. We were struck by the plight of long haul truckers who at the time had nowhere to stop for a break.

Check out Nick's albums at www.nickhowellrocks.com or nickhowell.bandcamp.com/releases

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Em
Six days from home.
No place to take a break.
Load at dawn in Calgary,
For Kamloops by eight
Nothing on the passes
But rigs and bears
Tried to stop for food and fuel
Nobody there.

G D Em
Sure feel like a Knight of the Road
G D Em
When a shift becomes a Quest
A
Bringing food to those in need
G A
a cog in a countrywide supply-side chain of wheels .

Em
Six days from home.
No place to take a break.
Load at dawn in Calgary,
For Kamloops by eight
Nothing on the passes
But rigs and bears
Tried to stop for food and fuel
Nobody there.

G D Em
Sure feel like a Knight of the Road
G D Em
When a shift becomes a Quest
A
Bringing food to those in need
G A
a cog in a countrywide supply-side chain of wheels .

Eyes peeled wide
Aimed at the ground
Logs won’t be checked
At the compound
Hope to squeeze in
Some sleep and a shower
Back on the highway
In the pre dawn hours.

Bridge
D
On the wings of Mercury
Em
Home on my mind
D
Worry in the shotgun seat
Em
Family left behind.

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from Year With No Spring (2020 Yearbook), released January 4, 2021
Vocals and guitar: Sean McGaughey

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Sean McGaughey Ontario

I am a folk singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and children's entertainer in Simcoe County Ontario. By day, I am a mild-mannered Elementary School teacher-librarian.

Since 2013, I have been participating the the February Album Writing Month Challenge at fawm.org to write 14 songs in February.

This year I challenged myself to up my musicianship and production values. This is the result. ... more

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