Coe, David Allan - The Great Nashville Railroad Disaster Lyrics
one sultry summer morning in the year of 1918
three hundred men with ebony skin
pulled out of union station
heading out of nashville for western tennessee
homeward bound cause uncle sam closed down
at that very moment on the cheatham county line
old number one train from memphis
was running way behind
back in the smokey club car a memphis gambling man
said gentleman, I'm folding these cards
cause I drew a dead mans hand!
a young man in a milk truck out near dutchman's grade
said oh my god two trains one track
a sister from the orphans home made a cross upon her chest
cause a one iron beast was coming from the east
and another one was coming from the west
the bird flew from the tree tops as the impact shook the ground
the screaming wheels and the grinding steel
could be heard for miles around
now every july 9th a few miles west of town
to this day some folks say
you can hear that mournful sound
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Coe, David Allan The Great Nashville Railroad Disaster Comments
Been listening to come for 20 years+. 33 yo. Kids have no excuse. If you don’t end up knowing coe hank sr Waylon are the gold standard you don’t know nothing about music.
Someone needs to go to nashville and blast this at full volume.
Mandy Plodek
On July 9th...yes. Yes they do!
May the Dead RIP.
January 1st 2019 never heard this before not bad 😅🤔
June 2019 listening too. Best song EVER by David Allan Coe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4hLltYQCNqk&t=5s
It's hard to listen to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Wreck_of_1918
100th year of the wreak.
Never heard this song before. Great song.
Man, David Allan Coe can really get to a person's heart. Bend those strings, bend 'em.
On the cheatham co line
sad that my generation doesn't know this music
Exactly.
im pretty sure mila kunis doesnt drink jim bean
Hmm, how old are you?
I'm 26 but a lot of my friends are 24-27 and allot of them listen to this kind of music.
And that's in the Netherlands, and I know that's the same in Sweden and Denmark,
But hey, that's folkmusic for ya!
As long as you are the same kind of folk
Dalton Wynn The majority of music nowadays is just garbage with mostly incomprehensible lyrics.
The only reason i found this song because of a youtuber
fuck yes
the ghosts of that wreck haunts the tracks to this day ever year you cain still hear the sounds of it
Love this song!!!
My god two trains one track, then he closed his eyes and he prayed....