Let it rock
A
2. In the heat of the day down in Mobile,
Alabama,
working
on the railroad with the steel driving hammer,
D
gotta make some money to buy some brand new shoes,
A
tryin' to find somebody to take away these blues.
E
"She don't love me,"
hear them singing in the sun,
A
payday's
coming and my work is all done. + instrumental =
verse 1
A
2. Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low,
all
day I been waiting for the whistle to blow,
D
sitting
in a tepee built right on the tracks,
A
rolling
them bones until the foreman comes back.
E
“Pick up your belongings, boys,
and scatter about,
A
we've
got an off-schedule train comin’, two miles about.” + instr. = verse 2
A
3. Everybody's scrambling, running around,
picking
up their money, tearing the tepee down,
D
foreman
wants to panic, ‘bout to go insane,
A
trying
to get the workers out the way of the train.
E
engineer
blows the whistle loud and long,
A
can't
stop the train, gotta let it roll on. +
instrumental = verse 3
(The Rolling Stones)