The Saratoga Lights

Saratoga Lights

Out in The Big Thicket late at night

Sometimes you’ll see a mysterious light

The subject of interest and much debate

Is in regards to railroad man and his fate

The year was 1905 or at least so it’s said

That this poor old bloke lost his head

But in the springs his ghost remains

Searching at night with such great pains

Looking for his head that is now long lost

He roams these woods come dew or frost

A reminder of the Saratoga train day

That carried timber and oil along the way

From Bragg to Beaumont this train did run

Through the woods and East Texas sun

There was an oil well and even a town

That night when old Will fell to the ground

They found his body but never his head

Leaving his spirit troubled, or so it’s said

So searching these woods is in his rights

And that’s the story of the Saratoga Lights