Colter Wall – Engine 143 (Guitar)

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Along come the FFV the swiftest on the line

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Running down 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 their 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 boy be careful how you run

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Cause many a man done lost his life trying to make lost time

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And if you run your engine right you'll make her just on time

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Off the road, she darted into the rocks she crashed

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The engine she lay upside down 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 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 darling boy lie still

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Your life can yet be saved if it is God's blessed will

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Oh no oh no it 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 out on a railroad  laid in a lonesome grave

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His face was covered up with blood his eyes you know could not see

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And the very last words poor Georgie said was nearer my God to thee

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I want to die with the engine I love one hundred and forty-three