Wreck Of The Old 97

Cash Johnny

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1. Well, they gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia
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   Sayin', "Steve you're way behind time
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   This is not Thirty-Eight it is old Ninety-Seven
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   you must put her into Spencer on time."
   
2. Then he turned and said to his black greasy fireman
   "Hey, shovel in a little more coal
   For when we cross that White Oak Mountain
   Watch old Ninety-Seven roll."
   
3. It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville
   with a line on a three mile grade
   it was on that grade that he lost his airbrakes
   see what a jump he made
   
4. He was going down the grade makin' ninety miles an hour
   When his whistle broke into a scream
   He was found in the wreck, with his hand on the throttle,
   scalded to death by the steam
   
5. The telegram came from the Washington station
   this is how it read
   "Oh that brave engineer that run old Ninety-Seven
   is lying in old Danville dead"
   
6. So now all you ladies you better take fair warnin'
   From this time on and learn
   Never speak harsh words to your true lovin' husband
   he may leave you and never return



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