| Song | Working on the Highway |
| Artist | Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band |
| Album | Live 1975-85 |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| Lyrics:Bruce Springsteen Music:Bruce Springsteen | |
| Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work | |
| Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt | |
| Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt | |
| Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts | |
| I work for the county out on 95 | |
| All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by | |
| In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss | |
| Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this | |
| Working on the highway laying down the blacktop | |
| Working on the highway all day long I don't stop | |
| Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock | |
| Working on the highway, working on the highway | |
| I met her at a dance down at the union hall | |
| She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall | |
| Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks | |
| One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back | |
| Working on the highway... | |
| I saved up my money and I put it all away | |
| I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say | |
| 'Son can't you see that she's just a little girl | |
| She don't know nothing about this cruel cruel world' | |
| We lit out down to Florida we got along all right | |
| One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white | |
| The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day | |
| And the judge got mad and he put me straight away | |
| I wake up every morning to the work bell clang | |
| Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang | |
| Working on the highway... |
| Lyrics: Bruce Springsteen Music: Bruce Springsteen | |
| Friday night' s pay night guys fresh out of work | |
| Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt | |
| Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt | |
| Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts | |
| I work for the county out on 95 | |
| All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by | |
| In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss | |
| Someday mister I' m gonna lead a better life than this | |
| Working on the highway laying down the blacktop | |
| Working on the highway all day long I don' t stop | |
| Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock | |
| Working on the highway, working on the highway | |
| I met her at a dance down at the union hall | |
| She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall | |
| Sometimes we' d go walking down the union tracks | |
| One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back | |
| Working on the highway... | |
| I saved up my money and I put it all away | |
| I went to see her daddy but we didn' t have much to say | |
| ' Son can' t you see that she' s just a little girl | |
| She don' t know nothing about this cruel cruel world' | |
| We lit out down to Florida we got along all right | |
| One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white | |
| The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day | |
| And the judge got mad and he put me straight away | |
| I wake up every morning to the work bell clang | |
| Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang | |
| Working on the highway... |
| Lyrics: Bruce Springsteen Music: Bruce Springsteen | |
| Friday night' s pay night guys fresh out of work | |
| Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt | |
| Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt | |
| Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts | |
| I work for the county out on 95 | |
| All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by | |
| In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss | |
| Someday mister I' m gonna lead a better life than this | |
| Working on the highway laying down the blacktop | |
| Working on the highway all day long I don' t stop | |
| Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock | |
| Working on the highway, working on the highway | |
| I met her at a dance down at the union hall | |
| She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall | |
| Sometimes we' d go walking down the union tracks | |
| One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back | |
| Working on the highway... | |
| I saved up my money and I put it all away | |
| I went to see her daddy but we didn' t have much to say | |
| ' Son can' t you see that she' s just a little girl | |
| She don' t know nothing about this cruel cruel world' | |
| We lit out down to Florida we got along all right | |
| One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white | |
| The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day | |
| And the judge got mad and he put me straight away | |
| I wake up every morning to the work bell clang | |
| Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang | |
| Working on the highway... |