Let It Rock

In the heat of the day, down in Mobile, Alabama

Working on the railroad with the steel driving hammer

I gotta get the money, buy some brand new shoes

Tryin' to find somebody, take away these blues

"She don't love me", try to sing it 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

I'm sitting in a teepee, built right on the track

Rolling them bones, 'till the foreman comes back

Now pick up your belongings, try to scatter about

We've got an off-schedule train, comin' two miles out

Now, everybody's jumping, trying to scramble around

Picking up their money, tearing the teepee down

The foreman want to panic, 'bout to go insane

Trying to get the workers out the way of the train

Engineer done blow the whistle, long, and long

Can't stop the train, he gotta let it roll on

Roll on