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down on the southern railroad line on a drowsy August day
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Came a man from across the tracks, and stopped our childish play
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Boys don't you raise no cain today, I remember the words he said
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Franny Walrevan's sick you know, with a bad pain in her head
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Well, he said we've tell the engineer, that pulls old 41
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Not to blow his whistle loud on the morning mail run
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And the fast express from Birmingham that's always just on time
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She won't blow the whistle post at Crossing No. 9
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Well, the August days soon turned to fall, and a chill was in the air
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The preacher came, the kinfolks went, and friends was everywhere
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Then one day they brought the news that tore hard at my mind
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Fanny Wall Ray is gone away, from Crossing No. 9
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Way back home in Sulphur Springs winter's coming hard
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The Georgia wind is blowing shrill across the section yard
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The snow is falling cold and white on the Southern Railroad line
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And the trains they don't blow no more ---- for Crossing No. 9
