Bruise n' Chain lyrics

Blind hot and fever shaking out of my brain

Ham fisted, hammer headed, hitting the road

Dirt in my eyes, bone and blood on my hands

I'm burnt, badly blistered mister hitting the road

Pain behind my eyes as I'm working the land

Brushing all the horseflies away with my hand

Prison guard looks down on me a-trailing his gun

Gotta go boy, go boy, go boy, go boy make me the run

Blind hot and fever shaking out of my brain

Ham fisted, hammer headed, hitting the road

Dirt in my eyes, bone and blood on my hands

I'm burnt, badly blistered mister hitting the road

Hit that goddamn hammer like it's busting my spine

Gotta get this railroad a-finished on time

The ropes around my wrists ain't nothing to the ropes in my soul

No rest for the wicked you gotta reach your goal

Hard, hard labour ten years on the chain

Make this damn railroad in the heat and the rain

Ankles ground down to the bone and grease on my hands

Gotta go boy, go boy working the land

The prison guard he hates me with fevers of hell

Hits me with the gun butt when I don't do so well

Give them a break, release me from these rusty chains

Build this damn railroad in the heat and the rain

Charged right this morning who working no more

Me I gotta pay my debt for breaking the law

But with my goddamn luck I'll find that when I die

Me who working in the dusty railroad in the sky