《Wreck Of The Old ’97(Album Version)》歌词

歌曲： Wreck Of The Old ’97(Album Version)

所属专辑：Gospel， Blues And Street Songs

歌手： Pink Anderson

时长： 03:27

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On the 29th day of one November morning[00:03:27]

When the cloud was hangin' low[00:03:27]

97 pulled out from Washington city[00:03:27]

Like an arrow shot from the bow[00:03:27]

97 was the fastest mail train[00:03:27]

The South had ever seen[00:03:27]

And it run from New York by the way of Washington[00:03:27]

Through Atlanta down in New Orlean (sic)[00:03:27]

I was standing on the mount one cold and frosty morning[00:03:27]

Watching the smoke from below[00:03:27]

That were comin' from the funnel of that black and dusty engine[00:03:27]

Way down up on that Southern road[00:03:27]

It was 97, the fastest mail train[00:03:27]

That run the Southern line[00:03:27]

And when she pulled in, at Lynchburg, Virginia[00:03:27]

She was forty-seven minutes behind[00:03:27]

Steve Brady, he was an engineerah (sic)[00:03:27]

And a very brave man was he[00:03:27]

Well, there're many good men have lost their life[00:03:27]

For the railroad company[00:03:27]

When they give him his orders at Monroe, Virginia[00:03:27]

Said, "Steve, you's way behind.[00:03:27]

This is not 38, but it's old 97, You must put her in Spencer on time."[00:03:27]

Steve, he smiled when he said to his black and dusty fireman[00:03:27]

"Throw me in a little more coal[00:03:27]

And as soon as we cross this White Oak Mountain[00:03:27]

You can watch my driver roll."[00:03:27]

It was mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville[00:03:27]

The line on a 3-mile grade[00:03:27]

It were on that hill where he lost his average[00:03:27]

You can see what a jump he made[00:03:27]

Steve come down that hill makin' 90 miles an hour[00:03:27]

His whistle began to scream[00:03:27]

Steve was found in the wreck with his hand upon the throttle[00:03:27]

And scalded to death by the steam[00:03:27]

Steve, he had a little wife and also two children[00:03:27]

Who were lyin' at home in bed[00:03:27]

They received the sad message saying, "Husband and father[00:03:27]

Now'm is lyin' in North Danville, dead."[00:03:27]

Now, ladies, you ought to let this be a warning[00:03:27]

This, from now and on[00:03:27]

Never speak hard words to your true lovin' husband[00:03:27]

They may leave you and never return[00:03:27]