Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Steel-toe boots
On a slick brown bank
Coffee in a thermos
Tastes like rust and rain
Whistle hits dawn
Same song again
Clock-in card
And a broke-down crane
[Chorus]
It’s that Ohio River shift
Same mud on my name
Carrying steel and sorrow
Watchin’ barges fade away
Yeah this Ohio River shift
Keeps rollin’ through my bones
I punch in for the wages
Stay late for the soul
[Verse 2]
Boss man barking
From a warm dry chair
Hands so clean
They ain’t touched this air
My back’s been aching
Since ‘ninety-two
Still I laugh with the boys
‘cause what else we gonna do
[Chorus]
It’s that Ohio River shift
Same mud on my name
Carrying steel and sorrow
Watchin’ barges fade away
Yeah this Ohio River shift
Keeps rollin’ through my bones
I punch in for the wages
Stay late for the soul
[Bridge]
One day I’ll trade this badge
For a midnight porch
Let the river talk
Like an old front porch
But ‘til that day
While the sparks still fly
I’ll drag these chains
And let this blue moon cry (oh yeah)
[Chorus]
It’s that Ohio River shift
Same mud on my name
Carrying steel and sorrow
Watchin’ barges fade away
Yeah this Ohio River shift
Keeps rollin’ through my bones
I punch in for the wages
Stay late for the soul
Style
rockdusty blues-rock band in a small bar roommale vocals with a worn edgecrunchy tremolo guitar and lazy swing drums; verses ride a mid-tempo shuffle that leans into storytellingchorus widens with organ swells and stacked call-and-response vocalsbridge strips down to vocalbassand rim clicks before the full band kicks back in hard for the final hookblues
Prompt
blues, blues rock working on the Ohio river
Credits
Prompt by
Tucker_Smith
Tucker_SmithGeneratedApr 2, 2026
ModelAria v5
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