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... |