Ben Dewberry's Final Run

Ben Dewberry was a brave engineer

He told his fireman don't you ever fear

All I want is the water and coal

Stick your head out the window, watch the drivers roll

Watch the drivers roll, watch the drivers roll

Stick your head out the window, watch the drivers roll.

Ben Dewberry said before he died

Two more roads that he wanted to ride

His fireman asked him what could they be

Said the old Northeastern and the A and B

Said the A and B, it's the A and B

Said the old Northeastern, it's the A and B.

On the fatal morning it began to rain

Around the curve come a passenger train

Ben Dewberry was the engineer

With the throttle wide open and without any fear

He didn't have no fear, he didn't have no fear

He had her running wide open without any fear.

--- Instrumental ---

Ben looked at his watch shook his head

We may make Atlanta but we'll all be dead

The train was flying by the troubling switch

Without any warning then she took the ditch

Yeah, she went in the ditch. well, she took the ditch

Without any warning, then she took the ditch.

Well, the big locomotive leaped from the rail

Ben never lived to tell that awful tale

His life was ended and his work was done

When Ben Dewberry made his final run

He made his final run, he made his final run

When Ben Dewberry made his final run...