Working On The Highway Lyrics
Bruce Springsteen
- Friday night's pay night, guys fresh out of work
- Talking about 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 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, I'm gonna lead a better life than this
- (CHORUS) 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
- So I'm...
- (REPEAT CHORUS)
- 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 that 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 all right
- 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
- I'm...
- (REPEAT CHORUS TWICE)
