The Monkey and the Engineer - The Brothers Four (四兄弟)

Lyricist：Jesse Fuller

Composer：Jesse Fuller

Once upon a time there was an engineer

Drove a locomotive both far and near

Accompanied by a monkey that sit on a stool

Watching everything the engineer would do

One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat

Left the monkey sitting on the driver's seat

Monkey pulled the throttle

The locomotive jumped the gun

And did 80 miles an hour on the mainline run run

All the big locomotive than a just get time

Big locomotive coming down the line

Big locomotive no 99

Left the engineer with a worried mind

Engineer bigain the called this dispatcher on the phone

Tell him all about his locomotive was gone

Geton the wire switch operator to the right

'Cause the monkey's got the main line sewed up tight

Switch operator got the message on time

The northbound livin' on the same main line

Open up the switch gonna let him through the hole

'Cause the monkey's got the locomotive under control

When the big locomotive an this just a time

Big locomotive coming down the line

Big locomotive no 99

Left the engineer with a worried mind

Big locomotive

Big locomotive

Big locomotive coming down the line

Big locomotive no 99

Left the engineer with a worried mind

Left the engineer with a worried mind

Left the engineer with a worried mind