Here's to daddy Claxton may his name forever stand
She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball"
We'll carry home to victory on the Wabash Cannonball
Our eastern states are dandy so the people always say
Hear the mighty rush of the engine, hear the lonesome hoboes call
Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland through the hills and by the shore
As she rolled into the station you could hear all the people say
She's mighty tall and handsome and known quite well by all
No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball
She came down from Birmingham one cold December day
"There's a girl from Tennessee, she's long and she's tall
From New York to St. Louis and Chicago by the way
And always be remembered round the courts of Alabam
From the hills of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall
She's a combination on the Wabash Cannonball
His earthly race is over and the curtains round him fall
