Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work
Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt
Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt
Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts
I work for the county out on 95
All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by
In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss
Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this
Working on the highway laying down the blacktop
Working on the highway all day long I don't stop
Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock
Working on the highway, working on the highway
I met her at a dance down at the union hall
She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall
Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks
One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back
Working on the highway...
I saved up my money and I put it all away
I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say
"Son can't you see that she's just a little girl
She don't know nothing about this cruel cruel world"
We lit out down to Florida we got along all right
One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white
The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day
And the judge got mad and he put me straight away
I wake up every morning to the work bell clang
Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang
Working on the highway...
The lyrics WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is also present in the album Born in the u.S.A. (1984)
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen, noto semplicemente come Bruce Springsteen, è un cantautore e musicista statunitense nato a Long Branch, New Jersey, nel 1949. Considerato uno dei più grandi cantautori rock di tutti i tempi, Springsteen è famoso per le sue canzoni epico-narrative che raccontano la vita quotidiana degli americani, spesso con un focus sui temi del lavoro, della classe operaia e dell'amore. La sua musica combina elementi di rock and roll, folk, country e blues, creando un sound potente e coinvolgente. Springsteen ha iniziato la sua carriera negli anni '60, guadagnando popolarità negli anni '70 con album come *Born to Run* (1975) e *Darkness on the Edge of Town* (1978). Ha raggiunto il successo internazionale con l'album *The River* (1980), che ha consolidato la sua posizione di superstar. Tra i suoi brani più famosi figurano "Born to Run", "Thunder Road", "Dancing in the Dark", "Glory Days" e "The Rising". Springsteen è stato insignito di numerosi premi, tra cui un Grammy Award per la vita, un premio Pulitzer per la musica e l'onorificenza di Presidential Medal of Freedom. Nel 2016 ha ricevuto il Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award.
In the realm of rock 'n' roll, there are few names as iconic as Queen, and within the Queen pantheon, Brian May stands out not only as a legendary guitarist but also as an astrophysicist with a profound connection to NASA.
Hip-hop, one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, has recently reached a significant milestone - it's turning 50 years old.
Coachella Festival 2022: here we are. In two days the doors of one of the most anticipated musical events of the year will open, even more so after the last two years in which for very obvious reasons the live music sector has suffered a very important setback.
The 2022 Grammy Awards were the chronicle of an announced triumph: Jon Baptiste collected 11 nominations and won 5 Grammys, defeating all opponents. This was also the year of the very young Olivia Rodrigo, who managed to take home 3 Grammys, including the the best new artist.
Here is finally some good news, the Arcade Fire have finally revealed the title and release date of their new album, 5 years after the last one. For the fan of the group it has been a time that seemed eternal,
Do we want to define "I know you know me" a masterpiece? Yes, without a shadow of a doubt for at least two reasons. The first and most evident are the artists who interpret it: Caroline Spence and Matt Berninger, second for the deep and poetic text.
My favorite group when I was just a teenager were the Fugees, thanks to them a certain curiosity about english language was born in me. I wanted to know and understand the lyrics of their songs, it wasn't enough for me to be carried away exclusively by their beautiful music.
Sweden and the United States are two countries far from each other, thousands of kilometers separate them, the language, culinary and sporting traditions, I don't feel so categorical about the landscapes, not knowing all of America there may be states that have the same reliefs of the country of northern Europe, but on one thing I am sure
It has been talked about for almost 3 years, rumored and it is hoped that sooner or later they will arrive at a collaboration, and now we are satisfied: the Catalan singer Rosalia and the American musician Oneohtrix finally announce the publication of a piece together!