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Grateful Dead |
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Reckoning |
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Monkey and the Engineer |
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Once upon a time there was an engineer. |
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Drove a locomotive both far and near. |
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Accompanied by a monkey that would sit on a stool |
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Watching everything the engineer would do |
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One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat, |
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He left the monkey sitting on the driver's seat, |
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The monkey pulled the throttle, the locomotive jumped the gun |
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And did 80 miles an hour down the mainline run. |
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Big locomotive right on time, big locomotive coming down the line. |
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Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind. |
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The engineer called up the dispatcher on the phone, |
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To tell him all about his locomotive was gone. |
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Dispatcher got on the wire, switch operator to the right, |
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Cause the monkey's got the main line sewed up tight. |
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The switch operator got the message on time, |
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Said there's a Northbound livin' on the same main line, |
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Open up the switch I'm gonna let him through the hole, |
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Cause the monkey's got the locomotive under control. |
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Big locomotive right on time, big locomotive coming down the line. |
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Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind. |
