well the devil came to me with the contact in his hands said he was lookin for a pure shovelin man you work for me son i ll pay you mighty well with a check addressed from hell said mr devil man your deal sounds fine tell me one thing before i sign the dotted line if i go workin boy you re rollin down that track how will i ever make it back he said we re goin ridin on a hellbound train hellbound glory yeah that s its name i just been hired to pile on that coal and watch them wheels roll i went a workin lordy a workin on that train shovelin coal into that red hot flame and i learned to my dismay that track went one way and now i m ridin on that hellbound train hellbound glory yeah that s its name i just been hired to pile on that coal and watch them wheels roll i don t know where i will go i only know i pile on the coal and watch them wheels roll i will never make it back i m all the way down on the hellbound track headed straight for hell  and now i m ridin on the hellbound train hellbound glory yeah that s its name i just been hired to pile on that coal and watch them wheels roll and now i m ridin on the hellbound train hellbound glory yeah that s its name i just been hired to pile on that coal and watch them wheels roll roll roll roll