Give me a spade, and I'll give you a hole (hole)
Way oh on the railroad
Dirt on my brow, but steel in my soul
Way oh on the railroad
Picking up coal and we're picking up speed
Shovel as much as the engine needs
Sweat and blood gonna earn my pay
All the way to Frisco Bay
Blowing through hills, tryna make up time (whuh!)
Way oh on the railroad
Ain't nothing gonna stand in the way of our line (whuh!)
Way oh on the railroad
Picking up coal and we're picking up speed
Shovel as much as the engine needs
Ain't no slave but we slave away
All the way to Frisco Bay
Hey
Boss man says that a mile a day's the pace (whuh!)
Way oh on the railroad
I'll make two for the look on his face (whuh!)
Way oh on the railroad
Picking up coal and we're picking up speed
Shovel as much as the engine needs
Ain't no slave but we slave away
All the way to Frisco Bay
Surveyors tryna plan which route is best (whuh!)
Way oh on the railroad
Just draw a straight line from east to west (whuh!)
Way oh on the railroad
Picking up coal and we're picking up speed
Shovel as much as the engine needs (hey)
Ain't no slave but we slave away
All the way to Frisco Bay
We spare no quarter, and we'll spare no man (whuh!)
Way oh on the railroad
Just pray we don't run into the Cheyenne
Way oh on the railroad
Picking up coal and we're picking up speed
Shovel as much as the engine needs
Sweat and blood gonna earn my pay
All the way to Frisco Bay
Picking up coal and we're picking up speed
Shovel as much as the engine needs
Ain't no slave but we slave away
All the way to Frisco Bay
Picking up coal and we're picking up speed
Shovel as much as the engine needs
If I should fall, leave me where I lay
On the railway to Frisco Bay
