| WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY - V1 | 3:25 | private |
| WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY - V2 | 3:18 | MI / THLRR / BUERM / TDB |
| WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY - V3 | 3:35 | private cdr |
| WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY - V4a | 3:09 | LM-19 / UH / GS |
| WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY - V4b | 3:10 | BITUSA |
Note: Springsteen took the lyrics of January 1982's "Child Bride" and wrote an entirely new rock melody to create "Working On The Highway". V1 is a Colts Neck full band performance that appears to predate the "Child Bride" recording, since it has a completely different final verse from both "Child Bride" and the final studio take of "Working On The Highway". This song lacks the "We lit out down to Florida" verse entirely, and replaces it with the protagonist suggesting that he wants to see her father to say "my love is pure and true," but first he must "drop a two lane blacktop from here to Timbuktu." There are also a few minor lyrical elements closer to "Child Bride", for example parts of lines three and four are reversed, as they are in the Nebraska outtake. V2–V4 recorded at Power Station on April 30 and May 6, 1982.