Jim Blakes Message-The Carter Family

[ti:Jim Blakes Message] [ar:The Carter Family] [al:My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountain] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jim Blakes Message - The Carter Family (卡特家族) [00:04.20]Jim Blake your wife is dying [00:07.34] [00:08.12]Went over the wires tonight [00:10.93] [00:11.97]The message was brought to the depot [00:15.05] [00:15.81]By a lad all trembling with fright [00:18.89] [00:19.71]He entered the office crying [00:22.59] [00:23.70]His face was terribly white [00:26.75] [00:27.62]And this message to dad and his engine [00:31.78]Mother is dying tonight [00:34.24] [00:43.99]In something less than an hour [00:47.37] [00:47.88]Jim's answer back to me flew [00:50.98] [00:51.83]Tell wife I'll be there at midnight [00:55.05] [00:55.61]I'm praying for her too [00:58.83] [00:59.50]I left my son in the office [01:02.93] [01:03.46]Tell the message to Jim's wife [01:06.64] [01:07.41]I found the dying woman [01:11.19]Was scarce of breath and life [01:14.49] [01:23.79]For hill and dale and valley [01:26.98] [01:28.00]Thunders a heavy train [01:30.77] [01:31.57]Its engineer's sobbing and throbbing [01:34.81] [01:35.46]And under a terrible strain [01:38.53] [01:39.36]But Jim hangs on to his throttle [01:42.28] [01:43.64]Guiding her crazy flight [01:46.49] [01:47.25]And his voice cries out in the darkness [01:51.06]God speed the express tonight [01:54.32] [02:03.71]I telephoned the doctor [02:07.03] [02:07.61]How is Jim's wife I asked [02:10.70] [02:11.46]About the hour of midnight [02:14.59] [02:15.29]Is long as she can last [02:18.39] [02:19.17]In something less than an hour [02:22.29] [02:23.10]The train will be along [02:25.98] [02:26.94]But here I have a message [02:30.77]Oh God there is something wrong [02:33.96] [02:43.48]The message reads disaster [02:46.67] [02:47.30]The train is in the ditch [02:50.51] [02:51.19]The engineer is dying [02:54.41] [02:55.11]Derailed by an open switch [02:58.24] [02:58.95]And there's another message [03:02.03] [03:02.82]To Jim's wife it is addressed [03:05.93] [03:06.79]I'll meet her at midnight in heaven [03:10.60]Don't wait for the fast express