Trying to make it
Yeah
Trying to make it
Yeah, yeah
Trying to make it
Working on this job I've got hard every day
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
Trying to earn enough so I can leave this place
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
The woman I got back home she don't understand
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
That I'm supporting her and her baby the best I can
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
I work all day but I never seem to get out of here
Yeah
She write me foolish letters each and every day
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
Telling me that I should come back home and stay
Yeah
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
She's the most mixed up woman that I've ever saw
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
I think I should send her back to my mother-in-law
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
I work all night but nothing ever seems to work out right
Yeah
She stays on my mind
Trying to make it
All the time
Trying to make it
I never can rest in peace
I never can rest in peace
Every time I lie down and try to sleep
Try to sleep
Someone's saying here's a message for me
Alright, what
I could catch the train tomorrow by four
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
I go back home to the woman I know
Trying to make it
Yeah, oh yeah
Trying to make it
She got me with the blues, yeah, oh yeah
She wrote and told me that she needs a new pair of shoes, yeah, oh yeah
I wake all day but I never seem to get enough air, yeah
I say I wake all night but nothing ever seems to work out right
It's all I got right, it's all I got right
Just all I got right, oh yeah