[3] The song has four bars of verse followed by eight bars of chorus with the final lines referring back to the verse: That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin' back 'Cause I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone You were flyin' too high for my little old sky so I'm movin' on The single reached number one on the Billboard country singles chart and stayed there for 21 weeks, tying a record for the most weeks atop the chart.

[4] It was the first of seven number-one Billboard country hits Snow scored throughout his career on that chart.

[4] The song's success led to Snow joining the Grand Ole Opry cast in 1950.

[5] According to music writer John Morthland, "The chugging beat establishes that this is a train song, and the fiddle and steel push harder than is usual on Nashville records from this era ...

There's real anger and determination in Snow's voice, which sometimes sounds too smooth for this type of song.