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