Let It Rock

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

Working on the railroad with the steel driving hammer

I gotta make some money to buy some brand-new shoes

I try to find somebody to take away these blues

"She don't love me", hear them singing in the sun

Payday coming when 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

Sitting in a teepee, building right on the tracks

Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back

Pick up your belongings, boys, and scatter about

We've got an on-schedule train coming two miles south

And everybody's scrambling, and a-jumpin' around

Picking up their money, tearing the teepee down

The foreman wants to panic, 'bout to go insane

Tryna get the workers out the way of the train

Engineer blows the whistle loud and long

Can't stop the train, I had to let it roll on