To this very day many people don't know why the train couldn't slow down! "Old Charlie stole the handle...no way to slow down!" The video is from the 1926 Buster Keaton’s film The General. It's the first film made about what came to be known as the great railroad chase during the American Civil War. It was filmed on a logging railroad west of Portland Oregon. We’re not sure if Ian Anderson had Buster Keaton in mind when he wrote the song.
In the
shuffling madness of the locomotive breath
Runs the
all-time loser headlong to his death
Oh, he
feels the piston scraping steam breaking on his brow
Old
Charlie stole the handle and the train it won't stop
Oh no way
to slow down.
He sees
his children jumping off at the stations one by one
His woman
and his best friend in bed and having fun
Oh, he's
crawling down the corridor on his hands and knees
Old
Charlie stole the handle and the train it won't stop going
No way to slow down. Hey!
He hears
the silence howling catches angels as they fall
And the
all-time winner has got him by the balls
Oh, he
picks up Gideons bible open at page one
I think
God he stole the handle and the train it won't stop going
No way to
slow down.
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