Engine 143-Joan Baez

[00:00.00] 作词 : Carter [00:01.00] 作曲 : Traditional [00:34.84]Along came the F15 the swiftest on the line [00:43.55]Running o'er the C&O road [00:48.15]Just twenty minutes behind [00:51.86]Running into Cevile head porters on the line [00:59.18]Receiving their strict orders [01:03.24]From a station just behind [01:08.90]Georgie's mother came to him [01:13.45]With a bucket on her arm [01:17.12]Saying my darling son be careful how you run [01:24.43]For many a man has lost his life [01:29.30]In trying to make lost time [01:33.02]And if you run your engine right [01:37.84]You'll get there just on time [01:43.72]Up the road he darted [01:47.12]Against the rocks he crushed [01:51.06]Upside down the engine turned [01:55.50]And Georgie's breast did smash [01:59.29]His head was against the firebox door [02:04.23]The flames are rolling high [02:07.88]I'm glad I was born for [02:10.10]An engineer on the C&O road to die [02:18.35]The doctor said to Georgie [02:22.10]My darling boy be still [02:25.89]Your life may yet be saved [02:29.92]If it is God's blessed will [02:33.56]Oh no said George that will not do [02:38.37]I want to die so free [02:42.20]I want to die for the engine [02:45.22]I love one hundred and forty three [02:52.81]The doctor said to Georgie [02:56.73]Your life cannot be saved [03:00.60]Murdered upon a railway [03:04.05]And laid in a lonesome grave [03:07.85]His face was covered up [03:10.69]With blood his eyes they could not see [03:16.23]And the very last words [03:18.28]Poor Georgie cry when nearer my God to thee