Hopkinsville

If you can't find work, work finds you

You know daddy didn't raise no welfare fool

Says there's a lot of worse things a

Boy could do than straddle an iron beam

So I'll build this bridge till it's complete

And I'll take the steel toes off my feet

And get myself a one way seat on that train to Hopkinsville

Yeah, 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, 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, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Well, this welding hood is mighty dark

You can see the sun in the welding sparks

And it sounds good singing old Joe Clark

Long as nobody else can hear

And it fits my head, fits my face

And it holds my welding gloves in place

And it's been known to hide the trace of a lonely man crying

Hey, 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

Hey, I'm going back (I'm going back)

Hey, I'm going back (I'm going back), you know I will

Only 21 working days until I'm with my love in Hopkinsville

Hopkinsville

Hopkinsville, that's right

Yeah, yeah, yeah