基本介紹
- 歌曲：Engine One-Forty-Three - Original
- 語言：英語
- 發行日期：2011-03-21
- 歌手：The Carter Family
- 所屬專輯：The Carter Family Selected Favorites, Vol. 3
Engine One-Forty-Three - Original - The Carter Family
Along came the FFV, the swiftest on the line
Running o'er the C and O road
Just 20 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
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 she darted, against
The rocks she crashed
Upside-down the engine turned
And Georgie's breast it smashed
His head was against the firebox door
The flames were rolling high
I'm glad I was born for an engineer to
Die on the C and 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 Georgie, 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 you could not see
And the very last words poor Georgie said was nearer
My God, to Thee
