Engine 143-Joan Baez

[ti:Engine 143] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Simplify Matters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.19]Engine 143 - Joan Baez [00:01.39]Written by：Traditional [00:02.16] [00:34.54]Along came the F15 the swiftest on the line [00:42.61] [00:43.30]Running o'er the C and O road just twenty minutes behind [00:50.91] [00:51.42]Running into Cevile head porters on the line [00:59.06]Receiving their strict orders from a station just behind [01:07.52] [01:08.66]Georgie's mother came to him with a bucket on her arm [01:16.63]She said my darling son [01:20.46]Be careful how you run [01:24.13]There's many a man has lost his life [01:28.84]In trying to make lost time [01:32.69]But if you run your engine right [01:37.42]You'll get there just on time [01:41.08] [01:43.53]Up the road she darted into a rock she crushed [01:50.89]Upside down the engine turned [01:55.27]And Georgie's breast did smash [01:59.19]His head leg against the firebox door [02:03.95]The flames are rolling high [02:07.68]I'm proud to be born for an engineer [02:12.48]And CO the road to die [02:15.98] [02:17.81]The doctor said to Georgie [02:21.93]My darling boy be still [02:25.49]Your life may yet be saved [02:29.58]If it is God's blessed will [02:33.31]Oh no cried George says will not do [02:38.15]I rather die so free [02:41.99]I want to die for the engine I love [02:46.89]One hundred and forty three [02:50.34] [02:52.53]And the doctor said to Georgie [02:56.41]Your life can not be saved [02:59.94] [03:00.44]Murdered upon a railway [03:03.98]And laid in a lonesome grave [03:07.67]His face was covered up with blood [03:12.15]His eyes they could not see [03:16.10]And the very last words poor Georgie cried [03:20.76]When nearer my God to thee