From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore From the queen of flowing mountains to the south bells by the shore She's mighty tall and handsome she's known quite well by all She's the combination on 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 gal from Tennessee she's long and she's tall She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball Our eastern states're dandy so all the people say From New York to St Louis and Chicago by the way From the hills of Minnesotta where the wrippling waters fall No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball So here's to daddy Claxton may his name forever stand And always be remembered in the ports throughout the land His earthly race is over the curtains round him fall We'll carry him home to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball So 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 squall Traveling through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball You're traveling through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball