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Ben Dewberry's Final Run
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Ben Dewberry was a brave engineer
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He told his fireman don't you ever fear
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All I want is the water and coal
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Stick your head out the window, watch the drivers roll
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Watch the drivers roll, watch the drivers roll
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Stick your head out the window, watch the drivers roll.
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Ben Dewberry said before he died
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Two more roads that he wanted to ride
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His fireman asked him what could they be
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Said the old Northeastern and the A and B
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Said the A and B, it's the A and B
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Said the old Northeastern, it's the A and B.
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On the fatal morning it began to rain
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Around the curve come a passenger train
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Ben Dewberry was the engineer
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With the throttle wide open and without any fear
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He didn't have no fear, he didn't have no fear
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He had her running wide open without any fear.
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--- Instrumental ---
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Ben looked at his watch shook his head
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We may make Atlanta but we'll all be dead
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The train was flying by the troubling switch
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Without any warning then she took the ditch
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Yeah, she went in the ditch. well, she took the ditch
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Without any warning, then she took the ditch.
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Well, the big locomotive leaped from the rail
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Ben never lived to tell that awful tale
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His life was ended and his work was done
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When Ben Dewberry made his final run
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He made his final run, he made his final run
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When Ben Dewberry made his final run...
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