From the recordings The Cincinnati Legends of Jeremiah Schmidt and Songs Inspired by Cincinnati
Lyrics
Ghost of Henry Thomas Hunt - Eminor
Intro - slow finger picking to 1/2 of verse
Verse 1: slow tempo
Way down down below, all the older people know
There's a road that runs through town.
Way back in the day, 'twas to be a subway
But they say (stop) all the money (stop) ran out (continue into chorus)
Way underground this old river town
There's a spook and he's having his fun
Way underground, lurking all around
Is the Ghost of Henry Thomas Hunt. (pick up tempo after this line)
-solo of verse
It was 1910 when the big businessmen
Voted Hunt for Mayor in town
Hunt found the funds. The subway was begun.
All the big (stop) businessmen (stop) were proud
Chorus
Hunt was a hit, for the subway he did get
But the big businessmen had their plan
Now they had all their funds, they didn't need young Mayor Hunt
So they laid him down in the sand
Chorus (tempo change after last line of Chorus)
With the holes half-dug and the rails half-run
That's when the subway Hunting begun
railmen were maimed, steelworkers slain
and the way they went down were all unexplained
but the businessmen knew as the crews all flew
why their subway plans were askew
they claimed it was cut 'cause they ran out of funds
but they were really run out by the Ghost of Henry Thomas Hunt
-solo/chorus/repeat last line x3 (with stops) fingerpicked outro