Tonart: A major
Verse 1
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Gm
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Friday night's pay night,
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guys fresh out of work
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Talking about the weekend,
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scrubbing off the dirt
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Some heading home to their families,
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some looking to get hurt
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Some going down to Stovell wearing
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trouble on their shirts
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C
I work for the county out on 95
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Gm
All day I hold a red flag and watch
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In my head I keep a picture
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of a pretty little miss
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I'm gonna lead a better life than this
Verse 2
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Working on the highway,
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laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway,
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all day long I don't stop
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Working on the highway,
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blasting through the bedrock
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Working on the highway,
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Gm
working on the highway
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Verse 3
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Gm
I met her at a dance
down at the union hall
She was standing with her brothers,
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back up against the wall
Gm
Sometimes we'd go walking
down the union tracks
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Gm
One day I looked straight at
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her and she looked straight back
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D
So I'm...
Interlude 1
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Gm
I
Verse 4
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saved up my money
and I put it all away
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I went to see her daddy but we
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didn't have much to say
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that she's just a little girl
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Gm
She don't know nothing about this cruel,
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We lit out down to Florida,
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Gm
we got along all right
One day her brothers came and got her and
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they took me in a black- and- white
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The prosecutor kept the promise
that he made on that day
And the judge got mad and
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he put me straight away
Gm
I wake up every morning to
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the work bell clang
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Me and the warden go swinging on the
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Charlotte County road gang
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I'm...
Outro 1
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