In a two -room trailer down by the
Clay lived with his lady and a one
And every night at twelve -oh -five
he'd hear that whistle whine.
Chattanooga was coming by on time.
Clay got mean when he drank too much
Jesse's lady wore the scars,
Jesse knocked her down one night
just for bustin' a bottle of gin
She hit her head when she hit the floor
and she never got up again
Clay was crazy scared when
He took his lady in his arms
and he carried her up the hill
He laid her down on a railroad track
just an hour ahead of the train
Jesse knew that soon the 1205
And then he went to town and he waited
around till he thought the time was right
And he told the law how the 1205
had taken his lady's life
The sheriff just looked at
Jesse hard and said you better
Because the 1205 just jumped the track
about ten miles up the line
And no one knows what caused
the train to leave the tracks that night
It never happened before or since,
And you can still hear the train whistle
whine as it passes by this way
