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[ti:The Wreck Of The Old 97 (Album Version)]
[ar:Pink Anderson]
[al:Ballad & Folk Singer, Vol. 3]
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[00:00.000]The Wreck Of The Old 97 (Album Version) - Pink Anderson
[00:01.650]On the 29th day of one November morning
[00:08.589]When the cloud was hangin' low
[00:14.826]97 pulled out from Washington city
[00:21.415]Like an arrow shot from the bow
[00:27.193]97 was the fastest mail train
[00:34.133]The south had ever seen
[00:39.683]And it run from new york by the way of Washington
[00:46.131]Through Atlanta down in New Orlean
[00:52.169]I was standing on the mount one cold and frosty morning
[00:59.368]Watching the smoke from below
[01:04.767]That were coming from the funnel of that black and dusty engine
[01:11.197]Way down up on that southern road
[01:17.055]It was 97 the fastest mail train
[01:23.705]That run the southern line
[01:29.325]And when she pulled in at Lynchburg Virginia
[01:35.645]She was forty-seven minutes behind
[01:41.414]Steve Brady he was an engineerah
[01:48.133]And a very brave man was he
[01:53.702]Well there're many good men have lost their life
[02:00.111]For the railroad company
[02:05.871]When they give him his orders at Monroe Virginia
[02:12.389]Said Steve you's way behind
[02:18.228]This is not 38 but it's old 97
[02:24.456]You must put her in Spencer on time
[02:30.136]Steve he smiled when he said to his black and dusty fireman
[02:37.063]Throw me in a little more coal
[02:42.283]And as soon as we cross this White Oak Mountain
[02:48.432]You can watch my driver roll
[02:54.192]It was mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville
[03:00.620]The line on a 3-mile grade
[03:06.260]It were on that hill where he lost his average
[03:12.689]You can see what a jump he made
[03:18.098]Steve come down that hill makin' 90 miles an hour
[03:25.175]His whistle began to scream
[03:30.464]Steve was found in the wreck with his hand upon the throttle
[03:37.144]And scalded to death by the steam
[03:42.653]Steve he had a little wife and also two children
[03:49.440]Who were lying at home in bed
[03:55.210]They received the sad message saying husband and father
[04:01.690]Now'm is lying in north Danville dead
[04:07.289]Now ladies you ought to let this be a warning
[04:14.248]This from now and on
[04:19.768]Never speak hard words to your true loving husband
[04:26.107]They may leave you and never return