"The Cannonball (Cannonball Blues)" lyrics - THE CARTER FAMILY

Oh, listen to the train
Coming down the line
Trying to make up for all of her lost time
From Buffalo to Washington

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You can wash my jumper
Starch my overalls
Catch a train they call the Cannonball
From Buffalo to Washington

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Yonder comes a train
Comin' down the track
To carry me away, but it ain't gonna carry me back
My honey babe, my blue-eyed babe

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My baby's left me,
She even took my shoes
Enough to give me the doggone weary blues
She's gone, she's solid gone

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I'm going up north
I'm going up north this fall
If my luck don't change I won't be back at all
My honey babe, I'm leaving you

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