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| Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work
Talking about the weekend tryin' to scrub off the dirt Some heading home to their families some wearing trouble on their shirts Some driving down to Stovell just looking to get hurt I work for the county out on 95 Just holdin' that red flag watchin' the traffic pass me by All day I keep a picture of my baby in my head At night I dream I'm with her, laying in my bunkhouse bed Seen her at the curtain down at the Legion hall She came in with her brothers standin' back up against the wall Me and her we'd go walking down by the union tracks One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back Grey clouds stretch across the white moon Sitting in the backyard in my old car We hum out of tune Well I saved up my money and I put it all away I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say Said ?Now son can't you see that she's just a little girl Who don't know nothing 'bout the meaness in this world? Took off down to Florida we got along all right One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day She was sad and the judge was mad and he put me straight away Well they said she was too young, She was no younger than I've been When she put her arms around me, and the night closed in Well sometimes I dream of getting out of here Heading down towards them old tracks I swore I'd come and get there But I know I ain't never going back There's nights I can't sleep No matter how hard I try So from my window I watch the moonlight Fall on the far hillside I imagine I put on my jacket Go down to this little roadside bar Pick a stranger and spin around the dance floor To a Mexican guitar |
Notes
Written and recorded as part of the demo tape that became the Nebraska album. But this slow, brooding song was left out, and the lyrics instead reused for the fun, uptempo "Working on the Highway" on Born in the USA.
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