Roy Acuff Wabash Cannonball lyrics

Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland
Ore the hills and by the shore
Hear the rush of the mighty engine hear the lonesome hobos call
He's riding through the jungle on the Wabash cannonball

Now the western states are dandies
So the southern people say from Chicago
And St. Louis and Peoria by the way
To the lake of Minnesota
Where the rippling waters flow
No chances to be taken on the Wabash cannonball

She pulled in to the station one cold December day

As she rolled up to the platform
You could hear all the people say
Now their's a gal from Birmingham
She's Elong and she's tall she came down from Georgia
On the Wabash cannonball

Now here's to daddy Claxton may his name forever stand
And always be remembered in the courts of all the land
His earthly race is over and as the curtain falls
We'll carry him back to Dixie on the Wabash cannon ball
Wabash Cannonball