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Joan Baez
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Engine 143
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Along came the ffv the swiftest on the line
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Running o'er the C&O road just twenty minutes behind
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Running into Sou'ville headquarters on the line
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Receiving there strict orders from a station just behind
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Georgie's mother came to him with a bucket on her arm
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Saying my darling son be careful how you run
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For many a man has lost his life in trying to make lost time
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And if you run your engine right you'll get there just on time
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Up the road he darted against the rocks he crashed
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Upside down the engine turned and Georgie's breast was smashed
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His head lay against the firebox door the flames were rolling high
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I'm glad to be born for an engineer on the C&O road to die
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The doctor said to Georgie my darling boy lie still
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Your life may yet be saved if it is God's blessed will
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Oh no said George that will not do I want to die so free
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I want to die with the engine I love one hundred and forty three
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The doctor said to Georgie your life cannot be saved
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Murdered upon a railroad and laid in a lonesome grave
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His face was covered up with blood his eyes they could not see
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And the very last words poor Georgie said was nearer my God to thee
Joan Baez - 05 - Engine 143 (Volume 2, 1...
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