Wabash Cannonball - Lyrics

Lyrics

The lyrics as performed by The Carter Family in their 1929 recording:

Verse:

From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore

She climbs flowery mountain, o'r hills and by the shore

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

She's a regular combination of the Wabash Cannonball.

Verse:

Oh, the Eastern states are dandy, so the Western people say

Chicago, Rock Island, St. Louis by the way

To the lakes of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall

No changes to be taken on the Wabash Cannonball.

Chorus:

Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumor and the roar

As she glides along the woodland, o'r hills and by the shore

She climbs the flowery mountain, hear the merry hobos squall

She glides along the woodland, the Wabash Cannonball.

Verse:

Oh, here's to daddy Cleaton, let his name forever be

And long be remembered in the courts of Tennessee

For he is a good old rounder 'til the curtain 'round him fall

He'll be carried back to victory on the Wabash Cannonball.

Verse:

I have rode the I.C. Limited, also the Royal Blue

Across the Eastern countries on Elkhorn Number Two

I have rode those highball trains from coast to coast that's all

But I have found no equal to the Wabash Cannonball.

Chorus:

Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumor and the roar

As she glides along the woodland, o'r hills and by the shore

She climbs the flowery mountain, hear the merry hobos squall

She glides along the woodland, the Wabash Cannonball.