It's a song for the road Snakey stretch of tar Concrete and gravel Stretching near and far Those highways and byways Lovely scenic routes From the mazes of our cities To the desolation south For every stretch of road There was a civil engineer And a crew to lay it down Through the heat And the dirt Through the years They blasted through the bedrock With sticks of dynamite They dug the mighty tunnels Worked all day and night I was thinking about a bridge That stretch across a gorge And all the time it took For the steel to be forged For every stretch of road There was a civil engineer And a crew to lay it down Through the heat And the dirt Through the years For every stretch of road There was a civil engineer And a factory crew To forge the steel To build the bridge Through the years