In the heat of the day down in Mobile, Alabama 在当天的阿拉巴马州莫比尔的热量下降

Working on the railroad with the steel driving hammer 工作与钢锤驾驶铁路

Gotta make some money to buy some brand new shoes 总得做出一些钱，买一些品牌的新鞋

Tryin' to find somebody to take away these blues 试着去发现有人拿走这些蓝调

"She don't love me" hear them singing in the sun “她不爱我”听到他们在阳光下歌唱

Payday's coming and my work is all done 发薪日的到来，我的工作全部完成

   

Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low 到了晚上，当太阳正在下沉低

All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow 整整一天，我一直在等待的哨子吹

Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks 坐在铁轨上右侧建起了帐篷

Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back 滚动他们的骨头，直到工头回来

Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about 拿起你家当男孩和散射有关

We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles about 我们已经得到了场外的时间表火车马上就要来2英里约

   

Everybody's scrambling, running around 每个人都争先恐后，乱跑

Picking up their money, tearing the teepee down 拿起自己的钱，流泪的帐篷下

Foreman wants to panic, 'bout to go insane 工头要惊慌， “布特去疯狂

Trying to get the workers out the way of the train 试图让工人出列车的方式

Engineer blows the whistle loud and long 工程师吹哨大声和长

Can't stop the train, gotta let it roll on 无法停止的火车，总得让它滚上