Bob Seger

Songwriter: Chuck Berry

Producer: Punch Andrews

[Verse 1]
In the heat of the day down in Mobile, Alabama
I've been workin' on the railroad with a steel-drivin' hammer
Tryin' to get some money, get some brand new shoes
Tryin to find a lady, chase away my blues
Hot and wasted, Lord, sweatin' in the sun
Cussed out by the foreman 'til my work is all done (Yeah)

[Verse 2]
Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low
I'll be out there waitin' on that whistle to blow
Sittin' in the teepee smokin' out on the track
Drivin' in a Chevy 'til my foreman get back
Suddenly, I hear the brakeman up and shout
"There's a non-stop train comin' two miles out"
(Huh, ow)

[Verse 3]
Everybody jumpin' and a-screaming around
Tryin' to get a line to get the teepee down
Railroad owner's 'bout to go insane
Tryin' to get the workers out the way of the train
Here come the engineer honky honk
He got a train you best let him roll on

[Chorus]
Let it rock
Ooh, let it rock
Oh, let it rock
Ooh, let it rock
Yeah, let it rock
Oh, all night long, yeah

Let it rock
Let it rock
Let it rock
Oh, let it rock
Let it rock
Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock

Let it rock
Oh, let it rock
Oh, let it rock
Oh, let it rock
Oh, let it rock
Oh, all night long
Yeah

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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Smokin’ O.P.’s (1972)
The Bob Seger Collection (1979)

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