Casey Jones Lyrics

Lyric discussion by PTCGAZ 

Cover art for Casey Jones lyrics by Johnny Cash

this is based off an old folk song that tells the story of an engineer who died in a train accident. It's made famous by the song Casey Jones by the Greatful Dead. The spelling should really be Kasey tho, since he was from Kasey, KY. The accident happened when a switch was supposedly left open and so the two trains collided. Casey Jones saved his fireman from a sure death by shoving him out of the train, as he applied the brakes, which saved all the people on the train. AND BTW there is no evidence that Casey Jones used cocaine like the GD version of the song suggests.