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