Black and sooty

Unburned coal rich, smoke

Belches, puffs and swirls

Into hot summer air

The shriek of a steam whistle

Raises a mighty din, decibles above

A powerful locomotive's spinning wheels

Bite into steel rails with determination

West Virginia mountainside

Is offering powerful resistance

The engineer wants to make his engine dance

Up the long haul, pull, pull, pull

Log laden cars and gravity

A conspiracy that would deny

The engine's proud stance

Logging train high atop Cass

Moving certain, but not fast

For her water and coal she'll toil

'Til her water is a steamy boil

Cogs meshing with twisting despair

Shafts with great power spinning

Move along, she's a winning

She won't quit, she won't quit, she won't quit

Through the switchbacks up and back

Heaving her load up that singing track

Shudder, puff and chug

When the round trip is done

Water we'll give her,a mighty big slug

Chug, chug---chug, chug