Working on the Highway-Bruce Springsteen

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[00:07.70]Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work
[00:12.20]Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt
[00:17.20]Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt
[00:22.20]Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts
[00:28.07]I work for the county out on 95
[00:32.70]All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
[00:37.89]In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
[00:43.08]Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this
[00:46.39](CHORUS) Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
[00:51.26]Working on the highway all day long I don't stop
[00:53.51]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
[00:54.95]Working on the highway working on the highway
[01:07.43]I met her at a dance down at the union hall
[01:11.81]She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall
[01:17.06]Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks
[01:22.25]One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back
[01:25.29]So I'm
[01:28.72](REPEAT CHORUS)
[01:47.44]I saved up my money and I put it all away
[01:49.69]I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say
[01:52.07]"Son can't you see that she's just a little girl
[01:54.19]She don't know nothing about this cruel cruel world"
[02:00.38]We lit out down to Florida we got along all right
[02:05.63]One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black-and-white
[02:10.75]The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day
[02:15.88]And the judge got mad and he put me straight away
[02:21.32]I wake up every morning to the work bell clang
[02:26.19]Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang
[02:29.44]I'm