The Wabash Cannonball
Hobo BalladWritten By: Theodore Dreiser, Jerry Reed (obit)
Dennis Cooper (harmonica),  Johnny Cash & June Carter

Midi 1(G236)     Midi 2 (G110)
Midi 3(C193)      Midi 4(G240)
MP3-1      MP3-2
For Diatonic harmonica

 

 

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From the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific shore.
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To the queen of flowing mountains to the south bell by the door.
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She's long and tall and handsome and loved by one and all.
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She's a modern combination called the Wabash Cannonball.

Now she came down from Birmingham one cold December day.
As she pulled into the station you could hear all the people say:
As a gal from Tennessee, she long and she's tall.
She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball.

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Oh listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar.
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As she glides along the woodlands through the hills and by the shores.
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Hear the mighty rush of engines. Hear the lonesome whistle's squall (hobo's call).
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As you travel 'cross the country on the Wabash Cannonball.

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Her eastern states are dandies so the people always say.
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From New York to St. Louis and Chicago by the way.
Through the hills of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall
No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball.

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Oh listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar.
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As she glides along the woodlands through the hills and by the shores.
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Hear the mighty rush of engines. Hear the lonesome whistle's squall (hobo's call).
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As you travel 'cross the country on the Wabash Cannonball.

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Here's to Daddy Klaxton may his name forever stand.
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And always be remembered through the courts throughout the land.
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His earthly race is over now the curtains 'round him fall.
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We'll carry him home to victory on the Wabash Cannonball!

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