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

THE CARTER FAMILY
"The Cannonball (Cannonball Blues)"

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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