Bill Mason (Charlie Poole) 
Bill Mason was an engineer He’d been on the road all of his life I’ll never forget the morning He married himself a wife Bill hadn’t been married more than an hour ’Till up came a message from Kress And ordered Bill to come down And bring out the night express 
While Maggie sat by the window A waiting for the night express And if she hadn’t a done so She’d have been a widow, I guess There was some drunken rascals That come down by the ridge They come down by the railroad And tore off the rail from the bridge 
Well, Maggie heard them working "I guess there’s something wrong In less than fifteen minutes Bill’s train would be along" She couldn’t come near to tell it A mile it wouldn’t’ve done She just grabbed up the lantern And made for the bridge alone 
By Jove, Bill saw the signal And stopped the night express And found his Maggie crying On the track in her wedding dress Her crying and laughing for joy Still holding on to the light He came around the curve a-flying Bill Mason’s on time tonight 
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