Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song FFV, artist - Townes Van Zandt. Date of issue: 16.05.2007
Song language: English
FFV |
| Well, along come the FFV, the swiftest on the line |
| Running along the C&O 'road twenty minutes behind |
| Running in the Seville headquarters on the line |
| Receiving their strict orders from a station just behind |
| Well, George’s mother come to him with a bucket on her arm |
| Saying, «My darling boy, be careful how you run |
| Well, it’s many a man has lost his life in trying to make lost time |
| But if you run your engine right, you’ll make her just on time» |
| Aw, but off of the road she darted and into the rocks she crashed |
| Well, the engine she laid upside down and George’s breast was smashed |
| Well, his head lay against the firebox door and the flames were rolling high |
| Well, I’m proud to be born for an engineer on the C&O 'road to die |
| Well, the doctor come to Georgie, my darling boy be still |
| Well, your life can yet be saved, if it is God’s blessed will |
| Aw, no, no, it will not do, I want to fly so free |
| Well I want to die with the engine I love, a hundred and forty three |
| Then the doctor said to Georgie, «Well your life cannot be saved» |
| Murdered out on the railroad, laid in a lonesome grave |
| But his face was all covered up with blood, his eyes, they could not see |
| And the very last words that Georgie spoke were «Nearer my God to thee» |