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Verse 1: A
Well in the heat of the day, down in Mobile, Alabama
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Working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer
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I Got to get some money, buy some brand new shoes
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Try to find somebody take away these blues
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She don't love me here, I'm singing in the sun
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Payday's coming when my work is all done
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Verse 2: A
Well later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
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All day I've been waiting for the whistle to blow
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Sitting in a tee-pee built right on the track
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Rolling them bones 'till the foreman come back
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Pick up your belongings boys and scatter about
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We got an off scheduled train coming two miles out
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Everybody's scrambling and jumping around
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Picking up the money, tear the teep-pee down
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Foreman was in panic, 'bout to go insane
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Trying to get the workers out the way of the train
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Engineer blowing the whistle long and long
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Can't stop the train we got to let it roll on
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