Doc Watson – The Wreck Of The 1262 (Guitar Live)

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She just left the point at Chiekany

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The freight number twelve-sixty-two

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   And on down the mountain she travelled

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So brave were the men in her crew

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Then the engineer pulled at the whistle

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For the brakes wouldn't work when app-lied

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And the brakeman climbed out on the car top

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For he knew what that whistle had cried

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With all of the strength that God gave him

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He tied in those brakes with a prayer

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 But the train went right on down that mountain

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Her whistle still piercing the air

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She travelled at sixty an hour

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Gaining speed every foot of the way

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And then with a crash it was over

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And there on the track the freight lay

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It's not the amount of the damage

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Or the value of what the wreck cost

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It's the sad scene they found in the cabin

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Where the lives of two brave men were lost

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They found them at their post in the wreckage

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Where they died when the engine had fell

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  The engineer still held the whistle

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And the fireman still clung to the bell

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Now this story is told of a freight train,

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But it should be a warning to all;

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  We need to be prepared ev'ry moment,

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For we can never tell when He'll call.