Engine 143-The Carter Family

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[00:00.00]Engine 143 - Harry Smith
[00:31.57]Along came the F15 the swiftest on the line
[00:39.71]Running o'er the C&O road
[00:43.77]Just twenty minutes behind
[00:47.64]Running into Cevile head porters on the line
[00:54.45]Receiving their strict orders
[00:57.73]From a station just behind
[01:01.88]Georgie's mother came to him
[01:05.74]With a bucket on her arm
[01:09.88]Saying my darling son be careful how you run
[01:16.54]For many a man has lost his life
[01:20.82]In trying to make lost time
[01:24.59]And if you run your engine right
[01:28.75]You'll get there just on time
[01:33.81]Up the road he darted against
[01:37.94]The rocks he crushed
[01:40.78]Upside down the engine turned
[01:44.69]And Georgie's breast did smash
[01:48.49]His head was against the firebox
[01:51.26]Door the flames are rolling high
[01:56.43]I'm glad I was born for an
[01:58.45]Engineer to die on the C&O road
[02:05.31]The doctor said to Georgie
[02:08.76]My darling boy be still
[02:12.29]Your life may yet be saved
[02:15.74]If it is God's blessed will
[02:19.30]Oh no said George that will
[02:21.86]Not do I want to die so free
[02:27.23]I want to die for the engine
[02:30.05]I love one hundred and forty three
[02:36.05]The doctor said to Georgie
[02:39.45]Your life cannot be saved
[02:43.30]Murdered upon a railroad
[02:46.37]And laid in a lonesome grave
[02:49.97]His face was covered up with blood
[02:54.24]His eyes they could not see
[02:57.88]And the very last words poor Georgie
[03:00.74]Said was nearer my God to thee