Country Songs Lyrics

Wabash Cannonball

As sung by Boxcar Willie

From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore
To the green old flowing mountains to the south down by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear that lonesome hoboes call
We're riding through to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball.

Oh the 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 waters fall
No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball.

Well listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland by the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear that lonesome hoboes call
We're traveling through the Jungle on the Wabash Cannonball.

She rolled into Birmingham one cold December day
As she pulled into the station you could hear all the people say
Theres a gal out there from Texas she's long and she's tall
She's the combination of the Wabash Cannonball.

Well listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland by the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear that lonesome hoboes call
We're traveling through to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball.

Well here's to Daddy Claxton may his name forever stand
And always be remembered throughout this great land
His earthly race is over and the curtains round him fall
We'll carry him up to heaven on the Wabash Cannonball.

Well listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland by the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear that lonesome hoboes call
We're traveling through to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball
We're riding through the Jungle on the Wabash Cannonball.