Working On The Highway Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen

• Friday night's pay night, guys fresh out of work
• Talking about the weekend, scrubbing off the dirt
• Some heading home to their families, some looking to get hurt
• Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts
• I work for the county out on 95
• All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
• In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
• Someday, mister, I'm gonna lead a better life than this
• (CHORUS) Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop
• Working on the highway, all day long I don't stop
• Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock
• Working on the highway, working on the highway
• I met her at a dance down at the union hall
• She was standing with her brothers, back up against the wall
• Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks
• One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back
• So I'm...
• (REPEAT CHORUS)
• I saved up my money and I put it all away
• I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say
• "Son, can't you see that she's just a little girl
• She don't know nothing about this cruel, cruel world"
• We lit out down to Florida, we got along all right
• One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black-and-white
• The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day
• And the judge got mad and he put me straight away
• I wake up every morning to the work bell clang
• Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang
• I'm...
• (REPEAT CHORUS TWICE)