Working on the Highway-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:Working On the Highway] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:Born In the U.S.A.] [by:] [offset:0] [00:07.70]Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work [00:12.20]Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt [00:17.20]Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt [00:22.20]Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts [00:28.07]I work for the county out on 95 [00:32.70]All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by [00:37.89]In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss [00:43.08]Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this [00:46.39](CHORUS) Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [00:51.26]Working on the highway all day long I don't stop [00:53.51]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [00:54.95]Working on the highway working on the highway [01:07.43]I met her at a dance down at the union hall [01:11.81]She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall [01:17.06]Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks [01:22.25]One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back [01:25.29]So I'm [01:28.72](REPEAT CHORUS) [01:47.44]I saved up my money and I put it all away [01:49.69]I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say [01:52.07]"Son can't you see that she's just a little girl [01:54.19]She don't know nothing about this cruel cruel world" [02:00.38]We lit out down to Florida we got along all right [02:05.63]One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black-and-white [02:10.75]The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day [02:15.88]And the judge got mad and he put me straight away [02:21.32]I wake up every morning to the work bell clang [02:26.19]Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang [02:29.44]I'm