Bruce Springsteen – Working On The Highway (Ukulele)

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| C | C | C | C |
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

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
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