Intro: Verse 1: Way up in the evening, down in Mobile, Alabama Working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer Got to make some money, buy some brand new shoes Try to find somebody take away these blues She don't love me here, I'm singing in the sun Payday's coming and my work is all done Verse 2: Early in the evening when the sun is sinking low All day I've been waiting for the whistle to blow Sitting in a tee-pee built right on the track Rolling them bones 'till the foreman come back Pick up your belongings boys and scatter about We got an off scheduled train coming two miles out Verse 3: Everybody's scrambling and running around Picking up the money, tear the teep-pee down Foreman was in panic, 'bout to go insane Trying to get the workers out the way of the train Engineer blowing the whistle loud and long Can't stop the train we got to let it roll on
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