Wabash Cannonball

From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore

She climbs a flowery mountains oe'r the hills and by the shore

Although she's mighty tall and handsome she's known quite well by all

She's a regular combination of the Wabash Cannonball

Eastern states're dandy all the western people say

Chicago or Rock Island and St Louis by the way

To the lakes of Minnesotta where the wrippling waters fall

No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar

She glides along the woodland through the hills and by the shore

Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear that lonesome hoboe call

Trav'ling through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball

[ harmonica - guitar ]

She came down to Birmingham one cold December day

As she rolled into the station you could hear all the people say

There's a gal from Tennessee she's long and she's tall

She came down to Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball

Here's to daddy Claxton may his name forever stand

He'll always be remembered in the ports throughout the land

His earthly race is over and the curtains round him fall

We'll carry him home to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle...