The Wreck Of The Old 97 (Album Version)-Pink Anderson

[ti:The Wreck Of The Old 97 (Album Version)] [ar:Pink Anderson] [al:Ballad & Folk Singer, Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Wreck Of The Old 97 (Album Version) - Pink Anderson [00:01.65]On the 29th day of one November morning [00:07.68] [00:08.58]When the cloud was hangin' low [00:13.03] [00:14.82]97 pulled out from Washington city [00:20.71] [00:21.41]Like an arrow shot from the bow [00:25.54] [00:27.19]97 was the fastest mail train [00:33.55] [00:34.13]The south had ever seen [00:38.20] [00:39.68]And it run from new york by the way of Washington [00:46.13]Through Atlanta down in New Orlean [00:50.72] [00:52.16]I was standing on the mount one cold and frosty morning [00:58.30] [00:59.36]Watching the smoke from below [01:03.06] [01:04.76]That were coming from the funnel of that black and dusty engine [01:10.61] [01:11.19]Way down up on that southern road [01:15.59] [01:17.05]It was 97 the fastest mail train [01:23.06] [01:23.70]That run the southern line [01:28.01] [01:29.32]And when she pulled in at Lynchburg Virginia [01:35.64]She was forty-seven minutes behind [01:40.22] [01:41.41]Steve Brady he was an engineerah [01:47.36] [01:48.13]And a very brave man was he [01:52.31] [01:53.70]Well there're many good men have lost their life [01:59.49] [02:00.11]For the railroad company [02:04.43] [02:05.87]When they give him his orders at Monroe Virginia [02:11.78] [02:12.38]Said Steve you's way behind [02:16.76] [02:18.22]This is not 38 but it's old 97 [02:23.86] [02:24.45]You must put her in Spencer on time [02:28.90] [02:30.13]Steve he smiled when he said to his black and dusty fireman [02:35.87] [02:37.06]Throw me in a little more coal [02:40.89] [02:42.28]And as soon as we cross this White Oak Mountain [02:48.43]You can watch my driver roll [02:53.17] [02:54.19]It was mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville [03:00.62]The line on a 3-mile grade [03:04.57] [03:06.26]It were on that hill where he lost his average [03:12.68]You can see what a jump he made [03:16.86] [03:18.09]Steve come down that hill makin' 90 miles an hour [03:24.50] [03:25.17]His whistle began to scream [03:29.02] [03:30.46]Steve was found in the wreck with his hand upon the throttle [03:37.14]And scalded to death by the steam [03:41.21] [03:42.65]Steve he had a little wife and also two children [03:48.93] [03:49.44]Who were lying at home in bed [03:53.92] [03:55.21]They received the sad message saying husband and father [04:01.17] [04:01.69]Now'm is lying in north Danville dead [04:06.16] [04:07.28]Now ladies you ought to let this be a warning [04:13.41] [04:14.24]This from now and on [04:18.29] [04:19.76]Never speak hard words to your true loving husband [04:26.10]They may leave you and never return