I know this is a line from "On Top Of Old Smokey", but the song I'm looking for is a Canadian song, written,I think, by an Ottawa songwriter. It was on an early Humber River Valley Boys album and I may have heard Paul Mills sing it.


I left my home in the Selkirks,
Where the Douglas Fir stands,
For the life of a rambler,
To seek foreign lands,
And so I traded the log chain
And the torment of flies
For the cross ties on a railroad
And the stars in the skies.

I did check digitrad, but maybe I have the wrong title for the song.