from the great atlantic ocean to the wide pacific shore from the queen of flowing mountains to the southbelt by the shore she s mighty tall and handsome and known quite well by all she s the combination called the wabash cannonball she came down from birmingham one cold december day as she rolled into the station you could hear all the people say there s a girl from tennessee she s long and she s tall she came down from birmingham on the wabash cannonball our eastern states are dandies 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 here s to daddy claxton may his name forever stand and always be remembered round the courts of alabam his earthly race is over and the curtains round him fall we ll carry home to vic try on the wabash cannonball listen to the jingle and the rumble and the roar as she glides along the woodlands through the hills and by the shore hear the mighty rush of the engine hear that lonesome hobo squall you re travlin through the jungles on the wabash cannonball2