Wabash Cannonball

From the Queen of flowin mountains, to the south belle by the shore,

She's mighty tall and hanndsome and she's known quite well by all,

She's the modern combination on the Wabash Cannonball

{Quite a bit of wordplay equating the train with a woman, which is

continued in the next verse}

She came down from Birmingham one cold December day

And as she stood in the roundhouse you could hear all the people say

"There's a gal from Tennesee and, man, she's long and she's tall.

She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball"

{The next verse is very similar to the last in the previous post}

Well here's to Daddy Claxton, may his name forever be !

And long be remembered in the courts of Tennesee.

His earthly trials are over as the final curtain falls.

We'll carry him home to vict'ry on the Wabash Cannonball.

{Up to now the song has had a decidedly southern bent, despite the

fact that the train ran N_S and was named for a river in Indiana. The

next verse, probably a much later redaction, tries to gives some equal

time to our northern friends...}

Her eastern states are dandy, some people always say.