Song: Engine 143

[Verse]
Along came the FFV the swiftest on the line
Running o'er the C&O road just twenty minutes behind
Running into Sou'ville headquarters on the line
Receiving very strict orders from a station just behind

[Verse]
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

[Verse]
Up the track she darted into a rock she crashed
Upside down the engine turned and Georgie's breast did smash
His head lay against the firebox door the flames were rolling high
I'm proud to be born for an engineer on the C&O road to die

[Verse]
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
[Verse]
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 were nearer my God to thee

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