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