From the great Atlantic ocean to the Pacific shore From the green old flowing mountains to the down along the shore mighty tall and handsome, she's known quite well by all The combination on that Wabash Cannonball
Listen to the jingle, the and the roar As she glides the woodland o'er the hills and by the shore the mighty rush of the engine, hear the lonesome hobo's call As you ramble across the country on that Wabash
Well, the eastern states are dandy, most always say From New to St. Louis and old Chicago by the way To the of Minnesota where them rippling waters fall No changes need be taken on Wabash Cannonball
to the jingle, the rumble and the roar As she glides along the o'er the hills and by the shore Hear the mighty rush of the engine, the lonesome hobo's call As you across the country on that Wabash Cannonball
Here's to Claxton, may his name forever stand In the hills of Tennessee many places throughout the When his earthly race are over and them curtains him fall him back to Dixie on that Wabash Cannonball
We came to Nashville on a warm November day As we into that station I heard somebody say There's a boy from Carolina, they're wide and fat and They came down to pick us a few, rode the Wabash Cannonball
Listen to jingle, the rumble and the roar As she glides along the woodland o'er and by the shore Hear the mighty rush of the engine, hear the lonesome hobo's As you ramble across the country on that Wabash