Working On the Highway

[ti:Working On the Highway] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:Ultimate Men of Pop, Vol. 60] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.96]Working On the Highway - The Hit Crew (热歌组合) [00:03.88] [00:06.43]Friday night′s pay night guys fresh out of work [00:09.02] [00:11.66]Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt [00:14.27] [00:16.59]Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt [00:19.65] [00:21.80]Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts [00:24.80] [00:27.22]I work for the county out on 95 [00:29.44] [00:32.36]All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by [00:35.89] [00:37.61]In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss [00:40.57] [00:43.12]Someday mister I′m gonna lead a better life than this [00:45.89]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [00:48.40]Working on the highway all day long I don′t stop [00:51.45]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [00:53.92]Working on the highway working on the highway [00:56.09] [01:06.42]I met her at a dance down at the union hall [01:09.52] [01:11.63]She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall [01:14.48] [01:16.92]Sometimes we′d go walking down the union tracks [01:19.67] [01:22.19]One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back [01:25.21]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [01:27.73]Working on the highway all day long I don′t stop [01:30.72]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [01:33.08]Working on the highway working on the highway [01:36.10] [01:46.16]I saved up my money and I put it all away [01:48.56]I went to see her daddy but we didn′t have much to say [01:51.55]"Son can′t you see that she′s just a little girl [01:53.99]She don′t know nothing about this cruel cruel world" [01:59.70] [02:00.22]We lit out down to Florida we got along all right [02:03.22] [02:05.55]One day her brothers came and got her [02:06.91]And they took me in a black and white [02:09.17] [02:10.73]The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day [02:13.53] [02:15.95]And the judge got mad and he put me straight away [02:18.60] [02:21.19]I wake up every morning to the work bell clang [02:24.17] [02:26.38]Me and the warden go swinging on [02:27.96]The Charlotte County road gang [02:29.54]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [02:32.03]Working on the highway all day long I don′t stop [02:34.70]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [02:37.27]Working on the highway working on the highway [02:39.90]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [02:42.53]Working on the highway all day long I don′t stop [02:45.31]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [02:47.92]Working on the highway working on the highway