Working on the Highway-Rock Riot

[ti:Working on the Highway] [ar:Rock Riot] [al:Livin' on the Edge: Trucking Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Working on the Highway - Rock Riot [00:06.44]Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work [00:09.34] [00:11.71]Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt [00:14.33] [00:16.62]Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt [00:19.57] [00:21.87]Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts [00:24.94] [00:27.16]I work for the County out on 95 [00:30.30] [00:32.43]All day I hold a red flag [00:33.71]And watch the traffic pass me by [00:35.40] [00:37.66]In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss [00:40.66] [00:43.08]Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this [00:45.68]Working on the highway [00:46.84]Laying down the blacktop [00:48.88]Working on the highway [00:49.73]All day long I don't stop [00:51.23]Working on the highway [00:52.25]Blasting through the bedrock [00:53.79]Working on the highway [00:54.69]Working on the highway [00:56.40] [01:06.57]I met her at a dance down at the union hall [01:09.56] [01:11.76]She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall [01:14.65] [01:16.98]Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks [01:20.13] [01:22.27]One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back [01:25.31]Working on the highway [01:26.36]Laying down the blacktop [01:27.81]Working on the highway [01:28.92]All day long I don't stop [01:30.44]Working on the highway [01:31.56]Blasting through the bedrock [01:33.02]Working on the highway [01:34.16]Working on the highway [01:35.84] [01:46.28]I saved up my money and I put it all away [01:48.75]I went to see her daddy [01:49.79]But we didn't have much to say [01:51.45]Son can't you see that she's just a little girl [01:53.90]She don't know nothing about [01:55.19]This cruel cruel world [02:00.31]We lit out down to Florida we got along all right [02:03.07] [02:05.51]One day her brothers came [02:06.37]And got her and they took me in [02:07.73]A black and white [02:08.51] [02:10.77]The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day [02:13.80] [02:15.98]And the judge got mad and he put me straight away [02:18.70] [02:21.24]I wake up every morning to the work bell clang [02:24.45] [02:26.47]Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang [02:29.36]Working on the highway [02:30.63]Laying down the blacktop [02:32.06]Working on the highway [02:33.23]All day long I don't stop [02:34.71]Working on the highway [02:35.78]Blasting through the bedrock [02:37.29]Working on the highway [02:38.44]Working on the highway [02:39.83]Working on the highway [02:41.08]Laying down the blacktop [02:42.43]Working on the highway [02:43.76]All day long I don't stop [02:45.19]Working on the highway [02:46.27]Blasting through the bedrock [02:47.72]Working on the highway [02:48.83]Working on the highway