Wabash Cannon Ball Traditional - Carter Family From the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific shore From sunny California to ice-bound Labrador She's the mighty tall and handsome, she's known quite well by all She's the mighty combination of the Wabash cannon ball Oh, listen to the jingle, to the rumble and the roar As she glides along the woodlands, through hills and by the shore Hear the mighty rush of enginr, hear those lonesome hobos squall While traveling through the jungle on the Wabash Cannon Ball This train, she runs to Memhis, Mattoon, and Mexico She rolls through East St. Louis, and she never does it slow As she flies through Colorado, she gives an awfull squall They tell her by her whistle the Wabash Cannon Ball Our eastern states are dandy, so the people always say From New York to St. Louis, and Chicago by the way From the hills of Minnesota where the rippling water fall No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannon Ball Now heres to Boston Blackey, may his name forever stand And always be remembered by hobos in this land His earthly days are over and the curtains 'round him fall We'll carry him home to victory on the Wabash Cannon Ball Wabash Cannon Ball as sung by the Carter Family Out from the wide Pacific to the broad Atlantic shore She climbs flowery mountains o’er hills and by the shore Although she's tall and handsome and she's known quite well by all She's a regular combination of the Wabash Cannonball 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    Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumor and the roar    As she glides along the woodlands o’er hills and by the shore    She climbs the flowery mountains, hear the merry hobos squall    She glides along the woodlands, the Wabash Cannonball Oh, here's Old Daddy Cleton, let his name forever be And long be remembered in the courts of Tennessee For he is a good old rounder, till the curtain round him fall He'll be carried back to victory on the Wabash Cannonball I have rode the I.C. Limited, also the Royal Blue Across the eastern countries on mail car 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   alles-uke.de