Doubletree

The snow falls on the passes
 And it covers up the rails
 And the hired men ride up to make them clean
 It's a winter camp and a frozen damp
 And a shovel in your hand
 And a coal train comes rumbling through the seam
 That morning came up shining
 Clear and sharp as broken glass
 We were riding for the tracks at Sugaree
 All holler and high spirit
 And the devil take the last
 And Henry lay a wager then to me
 He said "I've got five dollars
 and a whiskey at the bar
 says I make the tracks ahead of you"
 So we touched our horses up
 Sent them running down the hill
 And I did something I never meant to do
 Well I cut hard behind him
 From his blind side I come around
 Just as we were going down the scree
 I only meant to scare him but he tumbled to the ground
 And he broke his neck beneath the doubletree
 So you take him cut him out in a length of pine
 Lay him out in a suit of clothes
 Best that you can find
 Lay his body gentle in the ground
 And say a prayer for Henry
 Before you lay him down
 The night before poor Henry died
 We slept on open ground
 The circus of the stars a blaze of white
 Henry was the best friend that I ever had
 And I slept still as a child that night