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Verse 1
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Have you
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ever heard the story old -timers tell
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About a locomotive called O 'Nell?
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And how she took her farewell ride
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Down the Colorado mountain side.
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One day deadhead and
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she ran out of coal
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her brakes went dead an
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d she began to roll
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When she got up to 80 per
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the engineer began to
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sing to her
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Run for the
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your puffin days are through
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Brakes won't hold and your
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but we're going in with you
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That train whistlin' for the tunnel
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is number nine, no doubt
If we meet inside and start
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there'll be ten years diggin' us out
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If you don't slow
down at Union Town,
old gal, it's in the cards
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in the roundhouse
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an d a new track
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leavin' the yard
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On through the fields we'll travel,
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but if you take the sky,
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we'll be leavin' you on the P .D .Q. singin' goodbye,
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Nellie, goodbye.
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Here's a marvelous story
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of that ride to glory.
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I've been your coaler now for thirty years,
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in one more run we got a pension due,
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and the way she's rollin' Ellie knows it
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too. Some cattle crossin' on the track that day,
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they had no business on the right of way,
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A lone cow punch us at and shook his fist
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Cryin' come back now there's a
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heifer you missed
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This ain't no place for us to
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denim just in case
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A section foreman saw
them flyin' through
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He said we better get the wreckin' crew
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They stood bare -headed,
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threw their shovels down, sang,
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an d there goes Nellie on her last
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go -round
Hug the rails at Canyon Cross,
and gal, it's good to be alive
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The bottom's four miles
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down if we roll it,
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and it's two straight
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down if we dive
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No man alive has ever seen
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railroad engines fly
Nellie's hollering freight
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in the sweet by -and -by
Outro 1
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