From the song about tragedy impending, uh, we're gonna move swiftly to a song about tragedy narrowly averted. It's another in our long list of tragedy songs, but this one is a tragedy narrowly averted. It goes like this: one, two, three, four

Once upon a time there was an engineer

Drove a locomotive both far and near

Accompanied by a monkey who would sit on a stool

Watching everything the engineer would move

One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat

He left the monkey sitting on the driver's seat

The monkey pulled the throttle, locomotive jumped the gun

Doing ninety miles an hour down the mainline run

Big locomotive right on time

Big locomotive coming down the line

Big locomotive number 99

Left the engineer with a worried mind

The engineer called up the dispatcher on the phone

Tell him all about his locomotive was gone

Get on the wire, switch operator to right

'Cause the monkey's got the mainline sewed up tight

Switch operator got the message in time

Said there's a northbound limit on the same mainline

Open up the switch, I'm gonna let it through the hole

'Cause the monkey's got the locomotive under control

Big locomotive right on time

Big locomotive coming down the line

Big locomotive number 99

Left the engineer with a worried mind

Worried mind, worried mind

Big locomotive right on time

Big locomotive coming down the line

Big locomotive number 99

Left the engineer with a worried mind

Left the engineer with a worried mind

Left the engineer with a worried mind