Working on the Highway-InstaHit Crew

[ti:Working on the Highway] [ar:InstaHit Crew] [al:Rock's Ultimate Hit Essentials, Vol. 24] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Working on the Highway - InstaHit Crew [00:06.55]Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work [00:11.70]Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt [00:16.70]Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt [00:21.90]Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts [00:27.18]I work for the county out on 95 [00:32.37]All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by [00:37.62]In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss [00:43.10]Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this [00:45.97]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [00:47.90] [00:48.89]Working on the highway all day long I don't stop [00:51.42]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [00:53.96]Working on the highway working on the highway [01:06.61]I met her at a dance down at the union hall [01:11.63]She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall [01:16.92]Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks [01:22.17]One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back [01:25.25]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [01:27.96]Working on the highway all day long I don't stop [01:30.69]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [01:33.16]Working on the highway working on the highway [01:46.13]I saved up my money and I put it all away [01:48.74]I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say [01:51.45]"Son can't you see that she's just a little girl [01:54.04]She don't know nothing about this cruel cruel world" [02:00.39]We lit out down to Florida we got along all right [02:05.47]One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black-and-white [02:10.71]The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day [02:15.98]And the judge got mad and he put me straight away [02:21.23]I wake up every morning to the work bell clang [02:26.44]Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang [02:29.66]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [02:31.73] [02:32.27]Working on the highway all day long I don't stop [02:34.95]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [02:37.53]Working on the highway working on the highway [02:40.00]Working on the highway laying down the blacktop [02:42.65]Working on the highway all day long I don't stop [02:45.45]Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock [02:47.91]Working on the highway working on the highway