Engine 143

Engine 143 - The Kossoy Sisters/Erik Darling/Traditional

Along came the F15 the swiftest on the line

Running over the C and O road just

Twenty minutes behind

Running into Cevile head porters on the line

Receiving their strict orders from a station just behind

Georgie's mother came to him

With a bucket on her arm

Saying my darling son be careful how you run

For many a man has lost his life

By trying to make lost time

And if you run your engine right

You'll get there just on time

Up the road she darted against the rocks she crushed

Upside down the engine turned and Georgie's

Breast did smash

His head was against the firebox door

The flames were rolling high

I'm glad I was born for engineer

To the C and O road

The doctor said to Georgie my darling boy be still

Your life may yet be saved

If it is god's blessed will

Oh no said George that will not do

I want to die so free

I want to die for the engine

I love one hundred and forty three

The doctor said to Georgie your life can not be saved

Murdered upon a railroad and laid

In a lonesome grave

His face was covered up with blood

His eyes you could not see

And the very last words that Georgie

Said was nearer my god to thee