Jim Blake's Message-The Carter Family

[ti:Jim Blake's Message] [ar:The Carter Family] [al:Volume Two 1935-1941] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jim Blake's Message - The Carter Family (卡特家族) [00:04.09]"Jim Blake your wife is dying" [00:08.10]Went over the wires tonight [00:11.32] [00:11.98]The message was brought to the depot [00:15.01] [00:15.68]By a lad all trembling with fright [00:18.93] [00:19.55]He entered the office crying [00:23.76]His face was terribly white [00:26.70] [00:27.53]And this message to dad and his engine [00:31.76]"Mother is dying tonight" [00:34.61] [00:43.87]In something less than an hour [00:47.29] [00:47.80]Jim's answer back to me flew [00:50.96] [00:51.68]"Tell wife I'll be there at midnight [00:55.51]I'm praying for her too" [00:58.75] [00:59.39]"I left my son in the office" [01:03.42]Said the message to Jim's wife [01:06.57] [01:07.33]I found the dying woman [01:10.32] [01:11.01]Was scarce of breath and life [01:14.26] [01:23.70]For hill and dale and valley [01:26.96] [01:27.85]Thunders a heavy train [01:30.35] [01:31.42]Its engineer is sobbing and throbbing [01:34.64] [01:35.36]And under a terrible strain [01:38.63] [01:39.25]But Jim hangs on to his throttle [01:42.53] [01:43.21]Guiding her crazy flight [01:46.38] [01:47.06]And his voice cries out in the darkness [01:51.07]"God speed the express tonight" [01:54.27] [02:03.83]I telephoned the doctor [02:06.64] [02:07.42]"How is Jim's wife" I asked [02:10.69] [02:11.37]"About the hour of midnight [02:14.68] [02:15.19]Is long as she can last" [02:18.22] [02:19.06]In something less than an hour [02:22.07] [02:23.01]The train will be along [02:25.91] [02:26.88]But here I have a message [02:31.01]Oh God there is something wrong [02:33.72] [02:43.44]The message reads "Disaster" [02:47.28]The train is in the ditch [02:50.35] [02:51.13]The engineer is dying [02:54.31] [02:54.92]Derailed by an open switch [02:58.11] [02:58.86]And there's another message [03:02.71]To Jim's wife it is addressed [03:06.65]"I'll meet her at midnight in heaven [03:10.71]Don't wait for the fast express"