Well up in the evening down in Mobile, Alabama
  Working on the railroad with the steel driving hammer
  Gotta make some money to buy some brand new shoes
  Trying to find somebody to take away these blues
  "She don't love me" hear them singing in the sun
  Payday's coming and my work is all done
    Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
  All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow
  Sitting in a tepee built right on the tracks
  Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back
  Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about
  We've got an off-schedule train comin two miles about
    Everybody's trembling and running around
  Picking up their money, tearing the tepee down
  Foreman wants a penny (?) about 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, gotta let it roll on