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