Let It Rock (Live at Poplar Creek Music Theatre, Hoffman Estates, IL, September 16, 1989) Jerry Garcia Band

[Verse 1]
Up in the evening, down in Mobile, Alabama
Working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer
Tryna make some money, buy some brand new shoes
Try to find somebody take away these blues
She don't love me here, I'm singing in the sun
Payday's coming when my work is all done

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
All day I've been waiting for the whistle to blow
Sitting in a teepee built right on the track
Rolling them bones 'til the foreman come back
Pick up your belongings, boys, and scatter about
We got an off-schedule train coming two miles out

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Everybody's scrambling and running around
Picking up the money, tearing the teepee down
Foreman was in panic, 'bout to go insane
Tryna get the workers out the way of the train
Engineer blowing the whistle loud and long
Can't stop the train, we gotta let it roll on