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