Once upon a time there was an engineer.
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Drove a locomotive both far and near.
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Accompanied by a monkey that would sit on a stool
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Watching everything the engineer would do
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One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat,
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He left the monkey sitting on the driver's seat,
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The monkey pulled the throttle, the locomotive jumped the gun
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And did 80 miles an hour down the mainline run.
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Big locomotive right on time, big locomotive coming down the line.
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Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind.
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The engineer called up the dispatcher on the phone,
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To tell him all about his locomotive was gone.
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Dispatcher got on the wire, switch operator to the right,
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Cause the monkey's got the main line sewed up tight.
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The switch operator got the message on time,
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Said there's a Northbound livin' on the same main line,
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Open up the switch I'm gonna let him through the hole,
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Cause the monkey's got the locomotive under control.
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Big locomotive right on time, big locomotive coming down the line.
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Big locomotive No. 99, left the engineer with a worried mind.
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Monkey And The Engineer
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Grateful Dead |