Music buffs - help me find this song please!

Please prove that sheff forum can beat even google for info! am desperate to find out name of band and album BUT have only one line from one track to go on. I think band wre poss american/canadian. Album poss made mid to late seventies. Lyric is "and my kid's transistor says it's gonna snow". Need this info urgently for sentimental reasons, so come on musos or romantics - help me out. Failing that, any ideas how i cd find out? (Google has failed me).

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I heard grandpa on my transistor radio,

Though he turned in his bones twenty years ago,

And he said, "Kid, theres something that I'd like to show you,

Get your things, its time for us to go"

So I grabbed my backpack, my flashlight, and a bag of caramel corn,

I got my bicycle, and the radio, and I had it on the road, I said

"I'm ready for what I'm about to see, Yup"

I headed north to rain that turned to snow

Through rusty towns and dusty gravel roads

And I said, "Grandpa, where is this thing you wanted to show me?"

He said, "Kid, you got a long way to go"

So I went through canyons, caves and catacombs, I sailed on bicycle boats

I slept in chapels and brothels, I met the nicest folks

I said, "I'm ready for what I'm about to see, Yup"

I heard grandpa on my transistor radio

He said, "Kid, its time for me to go,

And I know that there was something that I wanted to show you,

But its time for you to find it on your own."

"Let me tell you about rage when a signal died that day,

Theres nothing out there and I don't care; Its to take my life away

I'm not ready and I don't want to see, Nope"

Its been years since I heard my transistor radio

Yet I keep going to where it seems I'm meant to go

And I finally realized what he wanted to show me

Where I've been, where I am, its the show

Where I've been, where I am, its the show

Where I've been, where I am, its the show

Please prove that sheff forum can beat even google for info! am desperate to find out name of band and album BUT have only one line from one track to go on. I think band wre poss american/canadian. Album poss made mid to late seventies. Lyric is "and my kid's transistor says it's gonna snow". Need this info urgently for sentimental reasons, so come on musos or romantics - help me out. Failing that, any ideas how i cd find out? (Google has failed me).

george colman on the album BONGO JOE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_dmusic?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=George+%22Bongo+Joe%22+Coleman

and its on google by the way

thank you.

did you find who it was

No - bt will keep trying!

well I have search all the imdb sites and thats the only artist thats does that song but nps

thread now says 'moved' and no more replies. Anyone know why this is pls?