“I’m Working on a Road” — in full, “I’m Workin’ on a Road (To Glory Land)” — is a bluegrass gospel song credited to Lester Flatt. Flatt, Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys recorded it in 1951, and it was released as a single in 1953.
The song works one of gospel music’s enduring metaphors: life as a road, and faith as the labor of walking it toward heaven. Its lyric casts the believer as a worker on that road to glory, pressing on through hardship toward the destination ahead.
Sacred songs were a steady part of the Flatt and Scruggs catalog, and “I’m Working on a Road” is a brisk, uplifting example, suited to the band’s hard-driving sound and tight harmony. It has remained part of the bluegrass gospel repertoire as a hopeful, forward-moving number.
