Ya' know............After all these years, I'm launching a quest to find some damn disaster song where the main character is an asshole. I mean a non-heroic figure. Ol' Georgie in FFV was certainly an asshole but portrayed as the hero. All these guys always seem to be heroic. Did anyone ever tell the truth in these songs?

Take Georgie.......He argues with his Fireman over who should jump and Georgie bravely stays. What a fuckin' idiot!   There isn't a thing you can do that requires you to stay on an engine...... even back then!! I'm the son of an Engineman and I knew dozens of them over the years and I will tell you true that not one swinging dick in the bunch would have stayed on that engine. In the modern day the procedure would be to throttle down and put the air in Emergency......past that point not much else. Its not like you can steer the thing away in a different direction!

In one of these songs, the truth is that the engineer fell out of the cab and hit his head on a rail. The song has him courageously croaking with his "hand on the throttle" or some other nonsense. So if you run across some crash ditty where the engineer/captain/pilot got the hell out instead of buying the farm like a numbnuts, let me know.

Spaw