Working On The Highway

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[Verse 1]

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Friday night's pay night guys 
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fresh out of work
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Talking about the weekend 
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scrubbing off the dirt
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Some heading home to their families
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 some looking to get hurt
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Some going down to Stovell wearing 
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trouble on their shirts
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I work for the county out on 95
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All day I hold a red flag and watch
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 the traffic pass me by
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In my head I keep a picture of a 
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pretty little miss
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Someday mister I'm gonna lead a 
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better life than this


[Chorus]

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Working on the highway laying 
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down the blacktop
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Working on the highway all day 
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long I don't stop
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Working on the highway blasting 
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through the bedrock             (x2)
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Working on the highway, working on
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 the highway
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[Verse 2]

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I met her at a dance down at the 
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union hall
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She was standing with her brothers 
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back up against the wall
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Sometimes we'd go walking down the
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 union tracks
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One day I looked straight at her 
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and she looked straight back


[Chorus]

F                        G       
Working on the highway laying 
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down the blacktop
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Working on the highway all day 
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long I don't stop
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Working on the highway blasting 
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through the bedrock             (x2)
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Working on the highway, working on
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 the highway
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[Bridge]

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Saved up my money and I put it all 
away
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I went to see her daddy but we 
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didn't have much to say
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"Son can't you see that she's just a
 little girl
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She don't know nothing about this 
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cruel cruel world"


[Verse 3]

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We lit out down to Florida we got 
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along all right
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One day her brothers came and got 
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her and they took me in a black and
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 white
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The prosecutor kept the promise 
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that he made on that day
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And the judge got mad and he put 
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me straight away
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I wake up every morning to the 
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work bell clang
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Me and the warden go swinging on the
 Charlotte County road gang


[Chorus]

F                        G       
Working on the highway laying 
            C
down the blacktop
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Working on the highway all day 
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long I don't stop
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Working on the highway blasting 
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through the bedrock             (x2)
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Working on the highway, working on
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 the highway
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F                        G       
Working on the highway laying 
            C
down the blacktop
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Working on the highway all day 
            C
long I don't stop
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Working on the highway blasting 
                 C
through the bedrock
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Working on the highway, working on
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 the highway


[Other]

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