
Date of issue: 10.01.2007
Record label: Group
Song language: English
Jim Blakes Message |
«Jim Blake, your wife is dying» |
Went over the wires tonight |
The message was brought to the depot |
By a lad all trembling with fright |
He entered the office crying |
His face was terribly white |
And this message to dad and his engine |
«Mother is dying tonight» |
In something less than an hour |
Jim’s answer back to me flew |
«Tell wife I’ll be there at midnight |
I’m praying for her, too» |
«I left my son in the office» |
Said the message to Jim’s wife |
I found the dying woman |
Was scarce of breath and life |
For hill and dale and valley |
Thunders a heavy train |
Its engine is sobbing and throbbing |
And under a terrible strain |
But Jim hangs on to his throttle |
Guiding her crazy flight |
And his voice cries out in the darkness |
«Godspeed the express tonight» |
I telephoned the doctor |
«How is Jim’s wife?"I asked |
«About the hour of midnight |
Is long as she can last» |
In something less than an hour |
The train will be along |
But here, I have a message |
Oh God, there is something wrong |
The message reads «Disaster» |
The train is in the ditch |
The engineer is dying |
Derailed by an open switch |
And there’s another message |
To Jim’s wife it is addressed |
«I'll meet her at midnight in heaven |
Don’t wait for the fast express» |
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