《Jim Blake’s Message》歌词

[00:00:00] Jim Blake's Message - The Carter Family (卡特家族)

[00:00:04] "Jim Blake your wife is dying"

[00:00:08] Went over the wires tonight

[00:00:11] The message was brought to the depot

[00:00:15] By a lad all trembling with fright

[00:00:19] He entered the office crying

[00:00:23] His face was terribly white

[00:00:27] And this message to dad and his engine

[00:00:31] "Mother is dying tonight"

[00:00:43] In something less than an hour

[00:00:47] Jim's answer back to me flew

[00:00:51] "Tell wife I'll be there at midnight

[00:00:55] I'm praying for her too"

[00:00:59] "I left my son in the office"

[00:01:03] Said the message to Jim's wife

[00:01:07] I found the dying woman

[00:01:11] Was scarce of breath and life

[00:01:23] For hill and dale and valley

[00:01:27] Thunders a heavy train

[00:01:31] Its engineer is sobbing and throbbing

[00:01:35] And under a terrible strain

[00:01:39] But Jim hangs on to his throttle

[00:01:43] Guiding her crazy flight

[00:01:47] And his voice cries out in the darkness

[00:01:51] "God speed the express tonight"

[00:02:03] I telephoned the doctor

[00:02:07] "How is Jim's wife" I asked

[00:02:11] "About the hour of midnight

[00:02:15] Is long as she can last"

[00:02:19] In something less than an hour

[00:02:23] The train will be along

[00:02:26] But here I have a message

[00:02:31] Oh God there is something wrong

[00:02:43] The message reads "Disaster"

[00:02:47] The train is in the ditch

[00:02:51] The engineer is dying

[00:02:54] Derailed by an open switch

[00:02:58] And there's another message

[00:03:02] To Jim's wife it is addressed

[00:03:06] "I'll meet her at midnight in heaven

[00:03:10] Don't wait for the fast express"