Key: Bb major
Verse 1
G
In the heat of the day down in Mobile,
Alabama
Workin' on the railroad
with a steel -drivin' hammer
C
I gotta get some money,
buy some brand -new shoes
G
Try to find somebody
to take away these blues
D
She don't love me here,
I'm singin' in the sun
G
Pity comin' when my work
C
G
is all done
D
G
Well, in the evening
when the sun is sinkin' low
All day I've been waitin'
for the whistle to blow
C
Sittin' in a teepee built
right on the track
G
Rollin' them bones till
the foreman come back
D
Pick a grubby longin' for a scatterabout
G
We got a off -schedule train
Gm
G
Bb
C
Gm
comin' two miles out
G
Gm
G
C
Bb
Gm
Bb
Gm
G
Everybody scrambling and
jumping around
Picking up the money,
tearing the T .V. down
C
A foreman was a -panicked,
about to go insane
G
Trying to get the workers
out the way of the
D
A an engineer blowin'
the whistle long and long
G
Can't stop the train,
Outro 1
they have to let it roll on
G
C
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