it s good to be back home again at the sevier tennessee i m awful glad to see you hope you re glad to see me now i d like to say i love you i welcome to you all now i know i stole this steam from the wabash cannonball from the great atlantic ocean to the wide pacific shore up the hills and down the mountains and the valleys to the shore she s mighty tall and handsome and known quite well by all she s a mighty famous thing called the wabash cannonball well she came down from birmingham one cold december day as she pulled into the station you could hear all the people say that s that train from tennessee boys she s long and she s tall she s a famous choo choo train called the wabash cannonball 