[ti:Wabash Cannon Ball] [ar:Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys] [al:Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys, Vol. 12] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Wabash Cannon Ball - Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys [00:10.18]From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore [00:14.52]From the queen of the flowing mountains [00:16.52]To the southbells by the shore [00:18.82]She's mighty tall and handsome and [00:21.02]Known quite well by all [00:23.33]She's a regular combination on the Wabash Cannonball [00:28.10]Listen to the jingle to the rumble and the roar [00:32.24]As she glides along the woodland [00:34.14]Through the hills and by the shore [00:36.59]Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear [00:38.72]That lonesome hoboes call [00:40.96]You're travelin' through the jungle on the [00:43.31]Wabash Cannonball [01:02.45]She came down from Birmingham one cold December day [01:06.60]As she rolled into the station [01:08.33]You could hear all the people say [01:10.97]Now there's a gal from Tennessee [01:12.97]She's long and she's tall [01:15.43]She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball [01:19.79]Our eastern states are dandy so the people always say [01:23.93]From New York to St Louis and Chicago by the way [01:28.36]From the hills of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall [01:32.78]No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball [01:54.95]Here's to daddy Claxton may his name forever stand [01:58.79]And long to be remembered round the ports of Alabam [02:03.19]His earthly race is over and the curtains round him fall [02:07.61]We'll carry him home to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball [02:12.77]Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar [02:16.16]As she glides along the woodland through the hills and by the shore [02:20.59]Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear that lonesome hoboes call [02:24.64]You're traveling through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball