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In the heat of the day down in mobile, alabama |
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Working on the railroad with |
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the steel driving hammer |
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Gotta make some money to buy some brand new shoes |
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Tryin' to find somebody to take away these blues |
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'she don't love me' hear them singing in the sun |
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Payday's coming and my work is all done |
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Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low |
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All day i been waiting for the whistle to blow |
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Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks |
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Rolling them bones until |
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the foreman comes back |
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Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about |
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We've got an off schedule train comin? |
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two miles about |
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Everybody's scrambling, running around |
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Picking up their money, tearing the teepee down |
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Foreman wants to panic, bout to go insane |
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Trying to get the workers out |
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the way of the train |
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Engineer blows the whistle loud and long |
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Can't stop the train, gotta let it roll on |