Let It Rock Lyrics - Jerry Garcia Band

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