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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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In the heat of the day, down in Mobile, Alabama
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Working on the railroad with 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

[Piano Solo]
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[Verse 2]
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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 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' two miles, about

[Guitar Solo]
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[Verse 3]
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Well, everybody's scrambling, jumping 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 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

[Outro-Guitar Solo]
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