Versuri 04. Working on the Highway

Friday night's pay night, guys fresh out of work  
Talking about the weekend, scrubbing off the dirt  
Some heading home to their families, some looking to get hurt  
Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts  
I work for the county out on 95  
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by  
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss  
Someday, mister, I'm gonna lead a better life than this  
 
(CHORUS) Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop  
Working on the highway, all day long I don't stop  
Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock  
Working on the highway, working on the highway  
 
I met her at a dance down at the union hall  
She was standing with her brothers, back up against the wall  
Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks  
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back  
So I'm...  
 
(REPEAT CHORUS)  
 
I saved up my money and I put it all away  
I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say  
"Son, can't you see that she's just a little girl  
She don't know nothing about this cruel, cruel world"  
We lit out down to Florida, we got along all right  
One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black-and-white  
The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day  
And the judge got mad and he put me straight away  
I wake up every morning to the work bell clang  
Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang  
I'm...  
 
(REPEAT CHORUS TWICE)