Artisto: | The Carter family (English) |
Uzanto: | Waeller Wutz |
Daŭro: | 130 sekundoj |
Komenca paŭzo: | 12 sekundoj |
Tononoma sistemo: | Bazvalorа |
Sakra: | |
Komentoj pri tabulaturo: | - |
Titel: Engine 143 (1929)
Artist: The Carter Family
Album: The Carter Family, Vol. 2
(A. P. Carter)
Recorded: Date: Friday,
February 15, 1929 (09:30-12:00
& 13:30-16:00)
Location: Victor Studio 1,
114 North Fifth Street, Camden, NJ
Victor Recording Session
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Along came the FFV,
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the swiftest on the line
Running o'er the C & O road
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just twenty minutes behind
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Running into Seville
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headquarters on the line
Receiving their strict orders
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from a station just behind
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Georgie's mother came to him
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with a bucket on her arm
Saying, my darling son,
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be careful how you run
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For many a man has lost his life
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in trying to make lost time
And if you run your engine right
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you'll get there just on time
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Up the road she darted,
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against the rocks she crushed
Upside-down the engine turned,
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and Georgie's breast it smashed
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His head was against the firebox door,
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the flames were rolling high
I'm glad I was born for an engineer
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to die on the C & O road
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The doctor said to Georgie,
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my darling boy, be still
Your life may yet be saved
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if it is God's blessed will
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Oh, no, said Georgie, that will not do,
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I want to die so free
I want to die for the engine I love,
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one hundred and forty-three
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The doctor said to Georgie,
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your life cannot be saved
Murdered upon a railroad
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and laid in a lonesome grave
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His face was covered up with blood,
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his eyes you could not see
And the very last words poor Georgie said
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was nearer, my God, to Thee