The Carter Family

Wabash Cannonball(Chords)

The Carter Family

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    Out from the wide Pacific to the broad Atlantic shore, 
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    she climbs flowery mountains o?er hills and by the shore. 
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    Although she's tall and handsome and she's known quite well by all, 
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    she's a regular combination of the Wabash Cannonball. 

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    Oh, the eastern states are dandy, so the western people say, 
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    Chicago, Rock Island, St. Louis by the way. 
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    To the lakes of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall, 
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    no changes to be taken on the Wabash Cannonball. 

           G                                  C 
    Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumor and the roar, 
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    as she glides along the woodlands o?er hills and by the shore. 
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    She climbs the flowery mountains, hear the merry hobos squall, 
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    she glides along the woodlands, the Wabash Cannonball. 

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    Oh, here's Old Daddy Cleton, let his name forever be, 
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    and long be remembered in the courts of Tennessee. 
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    For he is a good old rounder, till the curtain round him fall, 
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    he'll be carried back to victory on the Wabash Cannonball. 

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    I have rode the I.C. Limited, also the Royal Blue 
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    across the eastern countries on mail car number two. 
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    I have rode those highball trains from coast to coast that's all, 
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    but I have found no equal to the Wabash Cannonball. 

           G                                  C 
    Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumor and the roar, 
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    as she glides along the woodlands o?er hills and by the shore. 
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    She climbs the flowery mountains, hear the merry hobos squall, 
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    she glides along the woodlands, the Wabash Cannonball
	        

Written by A.P. Carter

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