Screaming Jenny

Screamin’ Jenny

Screamin’ Jenny running down the tracks on fire
Engineer’s gonna fail to save
Put poor Jenny in an unmarked grave

West Virginia cold November night
Little old shack on a railroad line
A lonely yellow light

Widow Jenny as narrow as that line
Drank from a bowl over wooden coal
Start to catch on fire

Screamin’ Jenny running down the tracks on fire
Engineer’s gonna fail to save
Put poor Jenny in an unmarked grave

Harpers Ferry was the station she did claim
Screamed and rain was her only plan
But the headlights bled with flame

Poor old Jenny runnin’ down the line in vain
And the train still stops for her burning ghost
Screamin’ out in pain

Screamin’ Jenny running down the tracks on fire
Engineer’s gonna fail to save
Put poor Jenny in an unmarked grave

Screamin’ Jenny running down the tracks on fire
Engineer’s gonna fail to save
Put poor Jenny in an unmarked grave