Wreck of the Old '97 Karaoke - Johnny Cash

This title is a cover version of Wreck of the Old '97 as made famous by Johnny Cash

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Tempo: variable (around 117 BPM)

In the same key as the original: A

Duration: 02:50 - Sample at: 01:11

Release date: 1964
Genres: Folk, Pop, In English
Composers: Johnny Cash, Norman Blake, Robert Johnson

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Lyrics Wreck of the Old '97

Well they give him his orders at Monroe Virginia

Sayin' Steve you're way behind time

This is not Thirty-Eight

This is Old Ninety-Seven

You must put her into

Spencer on time

Then he turned around and said to his black greasy fireman

Shovel on a little more coal

And when we cross that White Oak mountain watch Old Ninety-Seven roll

But it's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville

In a line on a three mile grade

It was on that grade that he lost his air brakes

See what a jump he made

He was goin' down a grade makin' ninety miles an hour

His whistle broke into a scream

He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle

Was scalded to death by the steam

Then a telegram come to Washington station

And this is how it read

Oh that brave engineer that run Old Ninety-Seven

He's a-lyin' in old Danville dead

So now all you ladies

You better take a warnin' from this time on and learn

Never speak harsh words to your true-lovin' husband

He may leave you and never return

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