a RePlay of the old story of Casey Jones?
Ballad Of Casey Jones
The Ballad Of Casey Jones
T. Lawrence Seibert, Wallace Saunders & Eddie Newton.
Well-Known Seibert-Newton version:
Come all you rounders if you want to hear the story about a brave engineer.
Casey Jones was the roller’s name. On six feet of wheels across he won his fame.
The caller called about Casey about a half past four.
He kissed his wife at the station door.
Climbed in the cabin with his orders in his hand.
Said “This is my trip to the promised land.”
Casey Jones climbed in the cabin. Casey Jones, orders in his hands.
Casey Jones, leanin’ out the window. Takin’ the trip to the promised land.
Cruising at the Memphis yards on a fly. Rain been a-falling and the water was high.
Everybody knew by the engine moan that the man at the throttle was Casey Jones.
Jones said, “Fireman, now, don’t you fret. Sam, well, Sam I ain’t giving up yet.
Eight hours late with the southbound mail,
We’ll be on time or we’ll leaving the rail.”
Dead on the rails was a passenger train. Blood was filling up Casey’s brain.
Casey said, “Hey, now, look ahead! Jump, Sam, jump or we’ll all be dead!’
With a hand on the whistle and a hand on the brake,
North Mississippi was wide awake.
“I see,” a railroad official said, “He’s a good engineer to be a-laying dead.”
Headaches and heartaches and all kind of pain; all a part of a railroad train.
The sweat and the toil the good and the ground, part of a life of a railroad man.
“Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_Old_97
Wreck of the Old 97 Johnny Cash with Lyrics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHKxk719AMc
If you read the account of The Wreck of the Old 97, the account is very, very similar to yesterday’s accident...................