Working On The Highway (Live)-Bruce Springsteen

[00:07.02]Friday night′s pay night guys fresh out of work [00:12.14]Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt [00:17.02]Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt [00:22.21]Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts [00:27.77]I work for the county out on 95 [00:32.64]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 [00:46.08]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [00:48.83]Working on the highway all day long I don′t stop [00:51.58]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [00:53.95]Working on the highway, working on the highway [01:01.39] [01:06.79]I met her at a dance down at the union hall [01:11.67]She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall [01:16.80]Sometimes we′d go walking down the union tracks [01:22.05]One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back [01:25.11]Working on the highway... [01:25.95]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [01:27.45]Working on the highway all day long I don′t stop [01:30.58]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [01:33.08]Working on the highway, working on the highway [01:45.96]I saved up my money and I put it all away [01:49.03]I went to see her daddy but we didn′t have much to say [01:51.46]"Son can′t you see that she′s just a little girl [01:53.77]She don′t know nothing about this cruel cruel world" [02:00.08]We lit out down to Florida we got along all right [02:03.33]One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white [02:10.76]The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day [02:15.83]And the judge got mad and he put me straight away [02:21.02]I wake up every morning to the work bell clang [02:26.15]Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang [02:29.52]Working on the highway... [02:30.39]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [02:32.02]Working on the highway all day long I don′t stop [02:34.59]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [02:36.95]Working on the highway, working on the highway [02:39.65]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [02:42.40]Working on the highway all day long I don′t stop [02:45.14]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [02:47.58]Working on the highway, working on the highway