Wabash cannonball lyrics

Artist  : Kinky friedman 
Song : Wabash cannonball
 
(alvin pleasant carter)

Oh, from the great atlantic ocean to the wide
pacific shore,
From the green ol’ glowing mountains to the hills
of labrador
She’s long and tall and handsome, she’s known
quite well by all,
She’s the combination called the wabash
cannonball.

She pulled in from birmingham one cold december
day,
Pulled into the station, you could hear the
people say,
¡°there’s a girl on there from tennessee, she’s
long and she’s tall,
She come in from birmingham on the wabash
cannonball.¡±

Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumble and the
roar
As she glides along the woodland through the
hills and by the shore.
Hear the mighty rush of the engine, hear the
lonesome hoboes call
Riding through the jungles on the wabash
cannonball.
Whew-ew!

Now eastern states are dandy, so the western
people say,
From new york to chicago, st. louis by the way
And up in minnesota where the rippling waters
fall
No chances can be taken on the wabash
cannonball.

Here’s to daddy claxton, may his name forever
stand,
May it always be remembered throughout all the
land
His earthly race is over and the curtains round
him fall
But we’ll carry him home to victory on the wabash
cannonball.

Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumble and the
roar
As she glides along the woodland through the
hills and by the shore.
Hear the mighty rush of the engine, hear the
lonesome hoboes call
Riding through the jungles on the wabash
cannonball.
Whew-ew!