from the great atlantic ocean to the wide pacific shore from the green old flowing mountains to the southbell by the shore she s mighty tall and handsome and known quite well by all she s a combination on the wabash cannonball now she came down from birmingham one cold december day as she pulled into the station you could hear all the people say there s a gal from tennessee she s long and she s tall she came down from birmingham 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 now here s to daddy claxton may his name forever stand always be remembered in the ports throughout the land his earthly race is over and the curtains round him fall carry him home to dixie on the wabash cannonball now listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar as she glides along the woodland through the hills and by the shore hear the mighty rush of the engine hear the lonesome hoboes call travelin through the jungle on the wabash cannonball