Let it Rock

In the heat of the day down in Mobile, Alabama
Working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer
I got to make some money, buy some brand new shoes
Trying to find somebody take away these blues
She don't love me, hear them singing in the sun
Payday's coming and my work is all done, all done

Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
All day I've been waiting for the whistle to blow
Sitting in a teepee on the tracks
I'll be rolling them bones til the foreman gets back
Gather your belongings boys, scatter about
We got an off-schedule train coming two miles out

Everybody's scrambling and jumping around
Gather up the money, tear the teepee down
The foreman wants to panic, 'bout to go insane
He's trying to get those workers out the way of the train
The engineer blows his whistle, loud and long
But you can't stop the train, you got to let it roll on
Roll on my friend