文本歌词

Engine 143 - The Carter Family
Along came the F15 the swiftest on the line
Running o'er the C&O road
Just twenty minutes behind
Running into Cevile head porters on the line
Receiving their strict orders
From a station just behind
Georgie's mother came to him
With a bucket on her arm
Saying my darling son be careful how you run
For many a man has lost his life
In trying to make lost time
And if you run your engine right
You'll get there just on time
Up the road he darted against
The rocks he crushed
Upside down the engine turned
And Georgie's breast did smash
His head was against the firebox
Door the flames are rolling high
I'm glad I was born for an
Engineer to die on the C&O road
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 said George that will
Not do I want to die so free
I want to die for the engine
I love one hundred and forty three
The doctor said to Georgie
Your life cannot be saved
Murdered upon a railroad
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
Said was nearer my God to thee