Taj Mahal recorded this on a LP called "Take A Gaint Step" in the late 60's. The chakalacka is one version of "Lining Track" bit not done to the same timing as it would've been done if being sung to work. If you sang it like a Jody Chant or like a military marching cadence you'd be much closer to the way it was used for working.
The lead sings the full song first, then sings it broken done ito single lines. A line of men would stand inbetween the tracks facing one direction another line of men would stand, facing the same direction, on the outside track, with their bars under the track like levers they'd lift together moving the whole section of both tracks & ties only an inch or so. This lift would happen on the repeat of the lead's line. The lead singing "Aint no use in writing home", the repeat by the gang "Ain't no use in writing home" is where the gang lifts.
The lift would actually be a double lift, the first quick lift wound raise it so slightly then they'd let the track fall, almost bounce, on the bounce they'd give the track it's second quick lift or jerk with a little more effort so it would move move with the bounce. Like a capstan shanty with it's short refrains & then the grand chorus, the greatest effort comes at the last refrain on the track lining song.

Ain't no use in writing home (the men in a line lift their bars)
Jody got your girl & gone (they lift their bars again)

the Jackalacka part would be the great effort, then a repeat of the whole scene until the man eyeballing the track says it's stright.

See the Captain sitting in the shade
He don't do nothing but he gets paid
Chorus
Ho boys can you line it, Ho boys give it hell
Ho boys can you line it, see Eloise go lining track

Way done younder in the holler field
Angels working on that chariot wheel

Mary, Martin, Luke & John
All those disciples dead & gone

Jack the rabbit said to Jack the bear
Can't you move it just a hair

See old Moses on the Red Sea shore
Smoting that water with a 2 X 4

I got to see the Birmingham Lining Bar Gang back in June. You'd have to see them in action to believe it. These men between 60 & 90 spiking the track to the ties, one on each side of the track racing to see whose faster at driving the spikes in, setting their own track section then moving it while singing, what an experince. Rounder just reissued in CD "Railroad Songs & Ballads" from the Library of Congress, this & some other great stuff is on it. Barry