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Learning Banjo - Easy Bluegrass Picking

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This song was made by Billy Gashade
As soon as news did arrive
He said there was no man with the law in his hand
Who could take Jessie James when alive

"The Wreck Of The Old 97"

Well he turned and he said to his black & greasy fireman
"Just shovel on a little more coal,"
and when we cross that White Oak Mountain
you can watch Old 97 roll!"

It's a mighty rough road between Lynchburg and Danville
On a line with a three-mile grade
It was on this grade that he lost his air breaks
You can see what a jump that he made.

He was coming down that grade
making ninety miles an hou
When his whistle turned into a scream.
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle
He was scaled to death by the steam.