Jamboree Singers — Wabash Cannonball lyrics

Lyrics

From out the wide Pacific
to the broad Atlantic shore
From the gray and flowing mountains
to Bell Harbor by the moor
She’s mighty tall and handsome
and known quite well by all.
She’s a combination
on the Wabash Cannonball.
Listen to the jingle and the rumble and the roar
as she glides along the woodlands,
through the hills and by the shore.
Hear the mighty rush of the engine
hear the lonesome hobos snore
while a’rattlin' through the jungles
on the Wabash cannonball.
Our Eastern states are dandies
so the people always say
From New York to St. Louis and Chicago
by the way.
From the streams of minnesota where
the rippling waters fall.
No changes can be taken
on the Wabash Cannonball.
Listen to the jingle and the rumble and the roar
as she glides along the woodlands,
through the hills and by the shore.
Hear the mighty rush of the engine
hear the lonesome hobos snore
while a’rattlin' through the jungles
on the Wabash cannonball.
She came down from Birmingham
one cold December day
As she rolled into the station
you could hear the people say
There’s a girl from Tennessee
she’s long and she’s tall
She came down from Birmingham
on the Wabash Cannonball.
Listen to the jingle and the rumble and the roar
as she glides along the woodlands,
through the hills and by the shore.
Hear the mighty rush of the engine
hear the lonesome hobos snore
while a’rattlin' through the jungles
on the Wabash cannonball.
Here the mighty locomotive man
his name forever stands
He’ll always be remembered
throughout this promised land.
His earthly race is over
and the curtains round him fall.
We’ll carry him to victory
on the Wabash Cannonball.
Listen to the jingle and the rumble and the roar
as she glides along the woodlands,
through the hills and by the shore.
Hear the mighty rush of the engine
hear the lonesome hobos snore
while a’rattlin' through the jungles
on the Wabash cannonball.