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Wreck of the old `97
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They gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia,
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they said: „Steve, you´re away behind time.
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This is not thirty-eight, this is old ninety-seven,
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put her into spencer on time.“
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So he turned around and said to his black, greasy fireman:
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„Hey shovel on a little more coal!
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And when we cross that White Oak Mountain,
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watch old ninety-seven roll.“
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It´s a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville
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in a line on a three-mile grade.
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It was on that grade that he lost his airbrakes,
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you see what a jump he´d made.
For he was goin´ down that grade making ninety miles an hour
his whistle broke into a scream...
He was found in the wreck with his hands on the throttle
scalted to death by the steam.
Well, now all you Ladies, you´d better take a warning
from this time on and learn:
Never speak harsh words to your true-lovin´ husband,
he may leave you and never return!