[00:00.00]Engine 143 - The Carter Family
[00:31.58]Along came the F15 the swiftest on the line
[00:39.72]Running o'er the C&O road
[00:43.78]Just twenty minutes behind
[00:47.65]Running into Cevile head porters on the line
[00:54.46]Receiving their strict orders
[00:57.74]From a station just behind
[01:01.89]Georgie's mother came to him
[01:05.75]With a bucket on her arm
[01:09.89]Saying my darling son be careful how you run
[01:16.55]For many a man has lost his life
[01:20.83]In trying to make lost time
[01:24.60]And if you run your engine right
[01:28.76]You'll get there just on time
[01:33.82]Up the road he darted against
[01:37.95]The rocks he crushed
[01:40.79]Upside down the engine turned
[01:44.70]And Georgie's breast did smash
[01:48.50]His head was against the firebox
[01:51.27]Door the flames are rolling high
[01:56.44]I'm glad I was born for an
[01:58.46]Engineer to die on the C&O road
[02:05.32]The doctor said to Georgie
[02:08.77]My darling boy be still
[02:12.30]Your life may yet be saved
[02:15.75]If it is God's blessed will
[02:19.31]Oh no said George that will
[02:21.87]Not do I want to die so free
[02:27.24]I want to die for the engine
[02:30.05]I love one hundred and forty three
[02:36.05]The doctor said to Georgie
[02:39.45]Your life cannot be saved
[02:43.30]Murdered upon a railroad
[02:46.37]And laid in a lonesome grave
[02:49.97]His face was covered up with blood
[02:54.24]His eyes they could not see
[02:57.88]And the very last words poor Georgie
[03:00.74]Said was nearer my God to thee