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Joan Baez( Joan Chandos Baez )
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Engine 143
Lyricist:A P Carter
along came the ffv the swiftest on the line running on that c&o road just twenty minutes behind running into seville, headquarters on the line receiving their strict orders from a station just behind
georgie's mother came to him with a bucket on her arm she said, ''my darling son, be careful how you run there's many a man has lost his life in trying to make lost time but if you run your engine right you'll get there just on time''
up the tracks she darted, into a rock she crashed upside down the engine turned and georgie's did smash his head lay against the firebox door, the flames were rolling high Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com i'm proud to be born for an engineer, on the c&o road to die
the doctor said to georgie, ''my darling boy, be still your life may yet be saved if it is god's blessed will'' ''oh no,'' cried george, ''this will not do, i'd rather die so free i want to die for the engine i love one hundred and forty three''
and the doctor said to georgie, ''your life cannot be saved'' murdered upon a railway and laid in a lonesome grave his face was covered up with blood, his eyes they could not see and the very last words poor georgie cried ''when nearer my god to thee''
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