Shadow In The Pines feat. Shannon Slaughter

Shadow In The Pines
Rich Schleckser/Rick Lang, March 2002

Way up in Hancock County, some 20-odd years back
There was an awful train wreck… when the Cumberland bridge collapsed.

The impact killed the engineer, that’s what the papers read.
They never found his body…just gave him up for dead.

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They were headed for the pulp mill on that fateful day,
When the weight from all the timber, caused the wooden bridge to fail.

That freight train dropped just like a shot down to the gorge below
What happened to the engineer, no one will ever know.

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They say his spirit haunts that Railroad line.
He never makes a sound…just a shadow… in the pines.

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By early that next morning, they’d reached the gruesome scene.
Just a heap of twisted wreckage was all that still remained.

They never found the engineer, though Lord knows that they tried.
When they thought of how he met his fate…they hung their heads and cried.

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Now the Railroads’ been abandoned, the pulp mills’ since shut down.
They still talk about that train wreck… in all the old mill towns.

There’s some that flat deny it, some claim it’s a fact.
The ghost of that engineer still walks that stretch of track.

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