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 
 
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 
 
Verse 3
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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 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