[ti:Jim Blakes Message]
[ar:The Carter Family]
[al:My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountain]
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[00:00.00]Jim Blakes Message - Carter Family/Carter
[00:04.20]Jim Blake your wife is dying
[00:08.12]Went over the wires tonight
[00:11.97]The message was brought to the depot
[00:15.81]By a lad all trembling with fright
[00:19.71]He entered the office crying
[00:23.70]His face was terribly white
[00:27.62]And this message to dad and his engine
[00:31.78]Mother is dying tonight
[00:43.99]In something less than an hour
[00:47.88]Jim's answer back to me flew
[00:51.83]Tell wife I'll be there at midnight
[00:55.61]I'm praying for her too
[00:59.50]I left my son in the office
[01:03.46]Tell the message to Jim's wife
[01:07.41]I found the dying woman
[01:11.19]Was scarce of breath and life
[01:23.79]For hill and dale and valley
[01:28.00]Thunders a heavy train
[01:31.57]Its engineer's sobbing and throbbing
[01:35.46]And under a terrible strain
[01:39.36]But Jim hangs on to his throttle
[01:43.64]Guiding her crazy flight
[01:47.25]And his voice cries out in the darkness
[01:51.06]God speed the express tonight
[02:03.71]I telephoned the doctor
[02:07.61]How is Jim's wife I asked
[02:11.46]About the hour of midnight
[02:15.29]Is long as she can last
[02:19.17]In something less than an hour
[02:23.10]The train will be along
[02:26.94]But here I have a message
[02:30.77]Oh God there is something wrong
[02:43.48]The message reads disaster
[02:47.30]The train is in the ditch
[02:51.19]The engineer is dying
[02:55.11]Derailed by an open switch
[02:58.95]And there's another message
[03:02.82]To Jim's wife it is addressed
[03:06.79]I'll meet her at midnight in heaven
[03:10.60]Don't wait for the fast express