| In the heat of the day
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| Down In mobile Alabama
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| Working on the railroad
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| With the steel-driving hammer
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| I gotta make some money
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| To buy some brand new shoes
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| Tryin' to find somebody
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| To take away these blues
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| "She don't love me"
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| Hear them singing in the sun
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| Payday's coming when my work is all done
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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 your belongings boys and scatter about
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| We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles out
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| Everybody's scrambling n' 'jumping around
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| Picking up their money
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| Tearing the teepee down
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| Foreman wants to panic
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| '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 long and long
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| Can't stop the train
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| You have to let it roll on |