From the great Atlantic Ocean
To the wide Pacific shore
From sunny California
To ice-bound Labrador
She's mighty tall and handsome
She's known quite well by all
She's the 'boes' accomodation
On the Wabash Cannonball!
Listen to the jingle
The rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodlands
Through hills and by the shore!
Hear the mighty rush of the engine
Hear the lonesome hoboes squawl
While traveling through the jungle
On the Wabash Cannonball!
This train, she runs through Memphis
Mattoon, and Mexico
She rolls through East St. Louis
And she never does it slow!
As she flies through Colorado
She gives an awful squawl
They tell her by her whistle –
The Wabash Cannonball!
Listen to the jingle
The rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodlands
Through hills and by the shore!
Hear the mighty rush of the engine
Hear the lonesome hoboes squawl
While traveling through the jungle
On the Wabash Cannonball!
Our eastern states are dandy
So the people always say
From New York to St. Louis
And Chicago by the way
From the hills of Minnesota
Where the rippling waters fall
No changes can be taken
On the Wabash Cannonball!
Listen to the jingle
The rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodlands
Through hills and by the shore!
Hear the mighty rush of the engine
Hear the lonesome hoboes squawl
While traveling through the jungle
On the Wabash Cannonball!
Now here's to Boston Blackey
May his name forever stand
And always be remembered
By the 'boes throughout the land!
His earthly days are over
And the curtains 'round him fall
We'll carry him home to victory
On the Wabash Cannonball!
Listen to the jingle
The rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodlands
Through hills and by the shore!
Hear the mighty rush of the engine
Hear those lonesome hoboes squawl
While traveling through the jungle
On the Wabash Cannonball!