Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Working on the Highway, artist - Bruce Springsteen. Date of issue: 03.06.1984
Song language: English
Working on the Highway |
| Friday night’s pay night, guys fresh out of work |
| Talking 'bout 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 long 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, 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, 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 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 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 alright |
| 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, 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 |
| Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop |
| Working on the highway, all day long I can’t stop |
| Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock |
| Working on the highway, working on the highway |