Let It Rock

Lyrics

In the heat of the day 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 tee pee 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 tee pee 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