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