From the great Atlantic ocean to the Pacific shore From the green old flowing to the south down along the shore She's tall and handsome, she's known quite well by all The combination on that Wabash Cannonball
to the jingle, the rumble and the roar As she glides along the woodland the hills and by the shore the mighty rush of the engine, hear the lonesome hobo's call As you ramble across the on that Wabash Cannonball
Well, the eastern states are dandy, people 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 that Wabash
to the jingle, the rumble and the roar As she glides the woodland 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 Daddy Claxton, may his forever stand In the hills of Tennessee many places throughout the When his earthly race are over and them curtains him fall [Incomprehensible] him back to on that Wabash Cannonball
We came down to Nashville on a November day As we into that station I heard somebody say There's a boy from Carolina, wide and fat and tall They came down to pick us a few, they rode the Wabash
to that jingle, the rumble and the roar As she along the woodland o'er hills and by the shore Hear the mighty rush of the engine, hear the lonesome call As you ramble across the country on Wabash Cannonball