Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Friday
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Verse 1
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night's pay night,/ guys fresh out of work
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Talking
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about the weekend,
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scrubbing off the dirt
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some looking to get hurt
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wearing trouble on their shirts
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I work for the county out on ninety five
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and watch the traffic pass me by
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of a pretty little miss
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lead a better life than this
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laying down the blacktop
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all day long I don't stop
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blasting through the bedrock
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working on the highway
Interlude 1
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I met
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Verse 3
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her at a dance down at the union hall
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back up against the wall
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the Union tracks
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and she looked straight back
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laying down the blacktop
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all day long I don't stop
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blasting through the bedrock
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working on the highway
Interlude 2
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I saved
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Bridge 1
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up my money and I put it all away
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"Son, can't you see that she's just a little girl
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She don't know nothing/ about this cruel, cruel world"
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we got along all right
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And they took me in a black-and-white
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that he made on that day
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and he put me straight a way
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I wake up every morning/ to the work bell clang
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laying down the blacktop
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all day long I don't stop
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blasting through the bedrock
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working on the highway
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laying down the blacktop
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all day long I don't stop
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blasting through the bedrock
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working on the highway
Outro 1
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