The ultimate working man song from the Boss. Here is a guy who works his ass off all day on the highway. He (like most of us) is dreaming about a better life, meeting the right girl and settling down. And then when he finally meets the right girl, her father does not approve (methinks she may not be of the age of consent, maybe 17?) So they take off for Florida for a new life together, but they get found and he gets put away. And then in the ironic ending, he finds himself back working on the highway, but on a chain gang. Great fun song!
I don't think he's BACK to working on the highway. At the beginning of the song, he is on the chain gang, and the song is him explaining how he wound up out here.
I don't think he's BACK to working on the highway. At the beginning of the song, he is on the chain gang, and the song is him explaining how he wound up out here.
@rmcd0494 No. He IS back working on the highway. In the beginning of the song, he says he works for the county out on 95, meaning I-95, obviously. At the end, he works in Charlotte County, which is a western Florida county through which I-95 doesn't run. Plus, it makes for a more coincindal twist to the song this way.
@rmcd0494 No. He IS back working on the highway. In the beginning of the song, he says he works for the county out on 95, meaning I-95, obviously. At the end, he works in Charlotte County, which is a western Florida county through which I-95 doesn't run. Plus, it makes for a more coincindal twist to the song this way.
The ultimate working man song from the Boss. Here is a guy who works his ass off all day on the highway. He (like most of us) is dreaming about a better life, meeting the right girl and settling down. And then when he finally meets the right girl, her father does not approve (methinks she may not be of the age of consent, maybe 17?) So they take off for Florida for a new life together, but they get found and he gets put away. And then in the ironic ending, he finds himself back working on the highway, but on a chain gang. Great fun song!
I don't think he's BACK to working on the highway. At the beginning of the song, he is on the chain gang, and the song is him explaining how he wound up out here.
I don't think he's BACK to working on the highway. At the beginning of the song, he is on the chain gang, and the song is him explaining how he wound up out here.
@rmcd0494 No. He IS back working on the highway. In the beginning of the song, he says he works for the county out on 95, meaning I-95, obviously. At the end, he works in Charlotte County, which is a western Florida county through which I-95 doesn't run. Plus, it makes for a more coincindal twist to the song this way.
@rmcd0494 No. He IS back working on the highway. In the beginning of the song, he says he works for the county out on 95, meaning I-95, obviously. At the end, he works in Charlotte County, which is a western Florida county through which I-95 doesn't run. Plus, it makes for a more coincindal twist to the song this way.