I've got the chord & words of the song called "Maco Light", as written by John D Loudermilk, but I would like to know: who ever recorded this song...?
The Maco Light is a meteorologic phenomenon in North Carolina, an eerie light, which attracts tourists and occultists nowadays. Folklore has an explanation to it: an interesting tale about a railroad man who loses his head – literally! These are the lyrics to the Loudermilk song:
A few miles east of Wilmington there's an eerie light that shines above the cold steel rails of the Atlantic costal line; (Atlantic costal line)
Old folks say a railroad man was killed there years ago As he tried to board the midnight train at the crossing at Maco; (The crossing at Maco)
They pulled him from beneath the weels, it was plain that he was dead They found the lantern in his hand but they didn't find his head; (They didn't find his head)
From that night on down thru the years the light keeps coming back That looks just like a railroad lantern swinging down the track, Swinging down the track.
What is the Maco light that shines on the lonesome railroad bed? Could it be the railroad man a-looking for his head, looking for his head ...
This Loudermilk song is probably first recorded around 1962. Who did it...?!
By the way, there are at least two other, different songs entitled 'Maco Light'. In 1965 Grant Turner recorded a song Maco Light on the Chart label, written by Hugh King, and in 1996 King Mackerel recorded a 'Maco Light' as composed by Don Dixon, the 1980s cult-produder/songwriter.