C F C | F C | F Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work C G C | F C | F Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt C F C | F C | F Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt C G C | F C | F Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts C F C | F C | F I work for the county out on 95 C G C | F C | F All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by C G C | F C | F In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss C G C Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this F G C Working on the highway laying down the blacktop F G C Working on the highway all day long I don't stop F G C Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock | 2x | F G C | F C | F C | F C | G C | Working on the highway, working on the highway C F C | F C | F I met her at a dance down at the union hall C G C | F C | F She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall C F C | F C | F Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks C G C | F C | F One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back ^{Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/b/bruce-springsteen/65947.html} F G C Working on the highway laying down the blacktop F G C Working on the highway all day long I don't stop F G C Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock | 2x | F G C | F C | F C | F C | G C | Working on the highway, working on the highway Am C Saved up my money and I put it all away Am C I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say Am C "Son can't you see that she's just a little girl F G She don't know nothing about this cruel cruel world" C F C | F C | F We lit out down to Florida we got along all right C G C | F C | F One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white C F C | F C | F The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day C G C | F C | F And the judge got mad and he put me straight away C F C | F C | F I wake up every morning to the work bell clang C N.C. Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang F G C Working on the highway laying down the blacktop F G C Working on the highway all day long I don't stop F G C Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock | 2x | F G C | F C | F C | F C | G C | Working on the highway, working on the highway F G C Working on the highway laying down the blacktop F G C Working on the highway all day long I don't stop F G C Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock F G C Working on the highway, working on the highway | F C | F C | F C | G C | Ooooh | F C | F C | F C | G C | Ooooh | F C | F C | F C | G C | | F C | F C | F C | G C |