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"The mid-night ex-press will be late here to-night, So"
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"side-track the west-bound freight. These were the or-ders that Tom had re-"
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"ceived, As he passed through the round-house gate. Tom was the switch-man"
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"with heart true as steel, and du-ty was first in his breast; But the"
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"thought of his boy= who was dy-ing at home, Crazed Tom, and he fell at"
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"his post. The shrill whis-tle blew, on the freight for the west, When the"
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"rum-ble was heard on the mid-night ex-press; A-sleep at the switch,= and"
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"no war-ning light, To sig-nal those trains that rushed through the night;"
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"When down to the switch, ran Tom's daugh-ter Nell, The cri-sis had"
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"passed, His boy would get well. She caught up the light and waved it on"
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"high, And side-tracked the west-= bound freight; The mid-night ex-press"
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"all in safe-ty flew by, While Tom was a-sleep at the switch. "
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