Let It Rock

(album: Smokin' O.P.'s - 1972)

In the heat of the day, down in Mobile, Alabama
Working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer
Trying to get some money, get some brand new shoes
Tryin to find a lady, chase away my blues
Hot and wasted Lord sweating in the sun
'Cause I'm not a foreman 'till my work is all done

Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
I'll be out there waiting for the whistle to blow
Sitting in the teepee smoking out on the track
Driving in a Chevy till my foreman get back
Suddenly I hear the breakman up and shout
There's a non-stop train coming two miles out

Everybody jumping and a screaming around
Tryin to get the line an get the teepee down
Railroad owner's 'bout to go insane
Trying to get the workers out the way of the train
Here come the engineer honk his horn
He got a train you got to let it roll on

Let it rock
All night long