Let It Rock
Carl Perkins Jeff Healey Jerry Lee Lewis Ronnie Hawkins and The Band Lyrics

Well up in the evening down in Mobile, Alabama
It was in the evening in Mobile, Alabama

Working on the railroad with the steel driving hammer
Carl Perkins was working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer to make some money

Gotta make some money to buy some brand new shoes
He was trying to earn money to buy new shoes

Trying to find somebody to take away these blues
He was looking for someone to help him get over his sadness

"She don't love me" hear them singing in the sun
He heard people singing a song about not being loved

Payday's coming and my work is all done
His work was done and payday was approaching

Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
It was later in the evening when the sun was setting

All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow
Jeff Healey had been waiting all day for a signal to stop working

Sitting in a tepee built right on the tracks
He was resting in a tepee built close to the railroad tracks

Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back
He was playing dice until the foreman returned

Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about
Ronnie Hawkins asked them to grab their things and disperse

We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles about
An unscheduled train was two miles away and approaching

Everybody's trembling and running around
Everyone was scared and running frantically

Picking up their money, tearing the tepee down
They collected their earnings and destroyed the tepee

Foreman wants a penny about to go insane
The foreman wanted to be paid and was getting impatient

Trying to get the workers out the way of the train
The foreman was trying to get the workers out of the train's path

Engineer blowing the whistle loud and long
The train's engineer was blowing the whistle loudly and for a long time

Can't stop the train, gotta let it roll on
They couldn't stop the train and had to let it continue moving