《The Wreck of the Old 97》歌词

[00:02:30] Well they gave him his orders at Monroe Virginia

[00:02:30] Saying Steve you're way behind time

[00:02:30] This is not 38 but it's old 97 you must put her into Spencer on time

[00:02:30] Well he turned around and said to his fireman shovel in a little more coal

[00:02:30] And when we cross this big White Mountain we'll watch old 97 roll

[00:02:30] [ dobro

[00:02:30] It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville and a line on a three mile grade

[00:02:30] It's on that grade that he lost his airbrakes you see what a jump he made

[00:02:30] They were goin' down the grade makin' 90 miles an hour

[00:02:30] When his whistle broke into a scream

[00:02:30] He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle

[00:02:30] A scalded to death by the steam

[00:02:30] [ fiddle

[00:02:30] Then the telegram come to Washington city and this is how it read

[00:02:30] The brave engineer that run old 97 he's a laying in old Danville dead

[00:02:30] Now all you ladies we take a warning from this time now and learn

[00:02:30] Never speak harsh words to your true loving husband

[00:02:30] Who may leave you and never return