Hopkinsville

If you can't find work, work finds you

You know daddy didn't raise no welfare fool

Said, 'there's a lot worse things a boy could do

Than straddle an iron beam.'

So i build this bridge 'til it's complete

And i'll take the steel toes off my feet

And give myself a one way seat on that train to hopkinsville

I'm going back to hopkinsville

I'm going back you know i will

Only 21 working days until

I'm with my love in hopkinsville

On my day off i pull the blinds

So the foreman won't see my taste for the wine

And i drink until the sun don't shine

And i sit and drink some more

I might call the boys and deal a hand

I may go to town to hear a country band

And lie about what we got planned

When we get off of that bridge

I'm going back to hopkinsville

I'm going back you know i will

Only 21 working days until

I'm with my love in hopkinsville

This welding hood is mighty dark

You can see the sun and the welding sparks

And it sounds good singing ole joe clark

Long as nobody else can hear

And it fits my head, fits my face

And it holds my welding gloves in place

Its been known to hide the trace of a lonely man crying

I'm going back to hopkinsville

I'm going back you know i will

Only 21 working days until

I'm with my love in hopkinsville (that's right)