Justin Townes Earle – The Ghost Of Virginia (Guitar)

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Well, she comes out at night with the cold winds of December

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And when it's quiet you hear her engines cry

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She blows smoke out her wheels and her gears pound the steel

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As they carry her on down the line

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Now I'm sure that you've heard stories as most of us have

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In the lunch counter and barber shop queues

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She's the Ghost of Virginia and from here up to Richmond

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She runs by the light of the moon

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Well, a few years back on the old Suffolk Road

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Where it crosses the abandoned rail line

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My Grandpa claimed that he'd seen a freight train

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And it wasn't no sleek stream line

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She was coal black and steel and she screamed as she cut

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Her way clear of the pines

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But he swears to this day he can feel the earth shake

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And smell her smoke when the wind's just right

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Yeah, but back in her day she was a real working horse

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Haulin' coal out for old man Ward

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She was tied up with ribbons and set out to Richmond

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Haulin' soldiers during the war

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Ah, but some say she wrecked and she rides these rails

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Hopin' one day that she'll get it right

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Others say she roams out picking up lost souls

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Carryin' 'em down to Carolina

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So if you're ever out on the old Suffolk Road

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And you see this strangest of sights

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She's the Ghost of Virginia bound from Raleigh up to Richmond

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And you'd best stay out of her line

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Yeah, you'd best stay out of her line