The Fairlie Duplex Engine

Come all you jolly quarrymen, lend to me an ear eighteen hundred and seventy. A very special year. It's all about a contest Mr Spooner has arranged Between two iron horses one familiar and one strange. We're going to Porthmadog, we're going to see the trails everyone's on holiday, The people travel miles! The railways got this loco the queerest ever seen When I saw it in the loco shed, I thought I'd lost me mind Two front ends together and no tender on behind The footplates in the middle and everything is double Four armed drivers needed there's two fires and two shovels We're going to Porthmadog, we're going to see the trails everyone's on holiday, The people travel miles! The railways got this loco the queerest ever seen She made it up Dinas, and we thought that she had won At Fairlies little wonder started on the job Two-hundred tons or more he pulled across the Madogs cob. We're going to Porthmadog, we're going to see the trails everyone's on holiday, The people travel miles! The railways got this loco the queerest ever seen -Instrumental- Now dignitaries from all the world saw history turn a page Fairlie's little wonder gracing narrow gauge Now gather-round you quarrymen And raise your glasses high. The great Ffestiniog Railway will never ever die. We're going to Porthmadog, we're going to see the trails everyone's on holiday, The people travel miles! The railways got this loco the queerest ever seen