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            Wabash Cannonball - The Carter Family 

[Verse 1]
 G                               C
Out from the wide Pacific to the broad Atlantic shore,
         D                        D7                   G
she climbs flowery mountains over hills and by the shore
   C
Although she's tall and handsome and she's known quite well by all,
             D                     D7             G
she's a regular combination of the Wabash Cannonball.

[Verse 2]
              G                            C
Oh, the eastern states are dandy, so the western people say,
       D              D7                G
Chicago, Rock Island, St. Louis by the way.

   C
To the lakes of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall,
         D                   D7             G
no changes to be taken on the Wabash Cannonball.

[Chorus]
       G                                  C
Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumor and the roar,
              D                         D7               G
as she glides along the woodlands over hills and by the shore
      C
She climbs the flowery mountains, hear the merry hobos squall,
         D                            D7      G
she glides along the woodlands, the Wabash Cannonball.

[Verse 3]
        G                                         C
Oh, here's Old Daddy Cleton, let his name forever stand,
        D                    D7               G
and long be remembered 'bo's throughout the land
                                         C
For he is a good old rounder, till the curtain round him fall,
              D                          D7           G
he'll be carried back to victory on the Wabash Cannonball.

[Verse 4]
            G                                  C
I have rode the I.C. Limited, also the Royal Blue
     D                          D7              G
across the eastern countries on mail car number two.
            G                           C
I have rode those highball trains from coast to coast that's all,
     D                           D7         G
but I have found no equal to the Wabash Cannonball.

[Chorus]
       G                                  C
Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar,
         D               D7                       G
as she glides along the woodlands over hills and by the shore                        
                                   C
She climbs the flowery mountains, hear the merry hobos squall,
         D                           D7        G
she glides along the woodlands, the Wabash Cannonball
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