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Lyrics for WRECK OF THE OLD 97 by Johnny Cash:
| | | Artist: | Johnny Cash |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | WRECK OF THE OLD 97 | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 82 | | | | Lyrics: | Well, they give him his orders at Monroe, Virginia
Sayin', "Steve you're way behind time
This is not Thirty-Eight, this is old Ninety-Seven
You must put her into Spencer on
time"
Then he turned and said to his black greasy fireman
"Shovel in a little
more coal
And when we cross that white oak mountain
Watch old Ninety-Seven roll"
But it's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville
In a line on a three
mile grade
It was on that grade that he lost his airbrakes
See what a jump he made
He was going down the grade makin' ninety miles an hour
His whistle broke into
a scream
He was found in the wreck, with his hand on the throttle
A-scalded to death
by the steam
Then a telegram come to Washington station
And this is how it
read
"Oh that brave engineer that run old Ninety-Seven
He's a-lyin' in old Danville
dead
So now all you ladies you better take a-warnin'
From this time on and
learn
Never speak harsh words to your true lovin' husband
He may leave you and never
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