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Well along come the ffv the swiftest on the line |
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Running long the c&o road 20 min behind |
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Running in the subhill headquaters on the line |
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Receivin' their strict orders from a station just behid |
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Well Georgie's mother come to him with a bucket on her arm |
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Saying my darlin' boy be careful how you run |
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Well it's many a man has lost his life in trying to make lost time |
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But if you run your engine right you'll make it just on time |
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Aw but off of the road she darted and into the rocks she crashed |
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Well the engine she laid upside down and Georgie's breast was smashed |
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Well his head lay gainst the firebox door and the flames were rolling high |
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Well i'm proud to be born for an engineer on the c&o road to die |
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Well the doctor come to Georgie my darlin' boy be still |
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Well your life can yet be saved if it is god's bless it will |
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Oh no no it will not do. I wanna fly so free |
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Well i wanna die with the engine i love a hundred fourty three |
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Then the doctor said to Georgie well you're life cannot be saved |
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Murdered out on the railroad, layed in a lonesome grave |
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But his face was all covered up with blood, his eyes they could not see |
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And the very last words that g spoke were near my god to thee |