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Let It Rock
The Shadows of Knight
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In the heat of the day down in Mobile, Alabama
I'm working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer
Got to get some money, buy some brand new shoes
Try to find somebody, take away these blues
Kitty, she don't love me, hear her singing in the sun
My payday's coming when the work is all done
Well, in the evening when the sun is sinking low
All I've been waiting for the whistle to blow
Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks
Rolling them bones 'til the foreman come back
Now pick up your belongings, boys, scatter the fire
We got a long shadow train coming two miles high
Everybody's screaming and a-jumping around
Picking up their money, tearing the teepee down
Foreman blows a panic, he's 'bout to go insane
Trying to keep the workers out the way of the train
Engineer blows the whistle loud and long
Can't stop the train, we gotta let it roll on