Song Name: | The Wabash Cannonball (chrom) | By: | Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash |
Posted By: | WaltP | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | G | Genre: | Folk |
Harp Type: | Chromatic | ||
Created: | 2011-05-18 16:05:05 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Song: | THE WABASH CANNONBALL
Trad. Folk Roy Acuff, Hank Williams Jr., Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash Key: G -1 -1 -1 -1 3 -3 -4 -5 From the great At-lan-tic o-cean -5 -5 -4 -4 -3 3 1 to the wide Pa-ci-fic shore 2 2 -1 -1 -2* -3 -4 -3 Saw the queen of flow-ing riv-ers -3 -3 -2* 3 -2* 2 -1 Might-y moun-tains by the score -1 -1 -1 -1 3 -3 -4 -5 She's long and she�s tall and hand-some -5 -5 -4 -4 -3 3 1 Yes she�s loved by one and all 2 2 -1 -1 -2* -3 -4 -3 She's a mod-ern com-bi-na-tion -3 -3 -2* -1 2 -2* 3 Called the Wa-bash Can-non-ball Chorus: -1 -1 3 -3 -4 -5 lis-ten to the jin-gle -5 -4 -4 -3 3 1 The rum-ble and the roar -1 -1 -2* -3 -4 -3 Rid-ing through the wood-lands -3 -3 -2* 3 -2* 2 -1 To the hills and by the shore -1 -1 -1 -1 3 -3 -3 -4 -5 Hear the might-y rush of the en-gine -5 -5 -4 -4 -3 3 1 Hear the lone-some ho-bo squall -1 -1 -2* -3 -4 -3 Rid-ing through the jun-gle -3 -3 -2* -1 2 -2* 3 On the Wa-bash Can-non-ball Your eastern states are dandies So the people always say From New York to St. Louis And Chicago by the way Through the hills of Minnesota Where the rippling waters fall No changes can be taken On the Wabash Cannonball Chorus Here's to Daddy Klaxton May his name forever stand And alwyas be remembered Through the courts of Alabam' His earthly race is over The curtains 'round him fall We'll carry him on to Glory On the Wabash Cannonball Chorus She pulled in to the station one cold December day As she rolled up to the platform 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 Chorus |