Kossoy Sisters – Engine 143

Kossoy Sisters – Engine 143 Lyrics

Artist: Kossoy Sisters
Song: Engine 143

Along came the FFV
The swiftest on the line
Running o’er the C and O road
Just twenty minutes behind

Running into Ceville
Head porter on the line
Receiving very strict orders
From the 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
A-trying to make lost time
And if you run your engine right
You’ll get there just on time”

Up the road, she dartеd
And against the rocks she crashed
Upsidе down the engine turned
And Georgie’s breast it smashed

His head was against the firebox door
The flames were rolling high
I’m glad I was born for an engineer
To die on C and O road

The doctor said to Georgie
“My darling boy be still
Your life may end this day
If it is not against his 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 cannot be saved”
Murdered upon a railroad

And laid him in lonesome grave
His face was covered up with blood
His eyes you could not see
And the very last words that Georgie said was

“Near my God to thee”
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Release Year: 1956