| Well the devil came to me with the contact in his hands
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| Said he was lookin' for a pure shovelin' man
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| «You work for me, son, I’ll pay you mighty well
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| «With a check addressed from hell»
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| Said «Mr. |
| Devil, man, your deal sounds fine
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| «Tell me one thing before I sign the dotted line:
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| «If I go workin', boy, you’re rollin' down that track
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| «How will I ever make it back?»
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| He said «We're goin' ridin' on a hellbound train
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| «Hellbound Glory, yeah, that’s its name»
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| I just been hired to pile on that coal
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| And watch them wheels roll
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| I went a-workin', Lordy, a-workin' on that train
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| Shovelin' coal into that red-hot flame
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| And I learned to my dismay
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| That track went one way
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| And now I’m ridin' on that hellbound train
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| Hellbound Glory, yeah, that’s its name
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| I just been hired to pile on that coal
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| And watch them wheels roll
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| I don’t know where I will go
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| I only know I pile on the coal
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| And watch them wheels roll
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| I will never make it back
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| I’m all the way down on the hellbound track
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| Headed straight for hell
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| And now I’m ridin' on the hellbound train
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| Hellbound Glory, yeah, that’s its name
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| I just been hired to pile on that coal
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| And watch them wheels roll
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| And now I’m ridin' on the hellbound train
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| Hellbound Glory, yeah, that’s its name
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| I just been hired to pile on that coal
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| And watch them wheels roll, roll, roll, roll |