Intro: 

  B        A 
 
Verse 1: 
    B 
Way up in the evening, down in Mobile, Alabama 
Working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer 
E 
Got to make some money, buy some brand new shoes 
B 
Try to find somebody take away these blues 
F# 
She don't love me here, I'm singing in the sun 
B 
Payday's coming and my work is all done 
 
Verse 2: 
Early in the evening when the sun is sinking low 
All day I've been waiting for the whistle to blow 
Sitting in a tee-pee built right on the track 
Rolling them bones 'till the foreman come back 
Pick up your belongings boys and scatter about 
We got an off scheduled train coming two miles out 
 
Verse 3: 
Everybody's scrambling and running around 
Picking up the money, tear the teep-pee down 
Foreman was in panic, 'bout to go insane 
Trying to get the workers out the way of the train 
Engineer blowing the whistle loud and long 
Can't stop the train we got to let it roll on