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Wabash Cannonball (Chrom C)

by Roy Acuff · posted by marion

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
2  2  -3  -4  5*  6_
From the great Atlantic ocean
5*  5*  5*  5*  -4  -3  -1_
To the wide Pacific shore
2  2  2  2  3*  -4  5*  -4_
From the queen of flowing mountains
-4  -4  3*  3*  3*  -2*  2_
To the southbelt by the shore
2  2  2  -3  -4  5*  6_
She's mighty tall and handsome
6  5*  5*  -4  -3  -1_
And known quite well by all
-2*  -2*  2  2  3*  -4  5*  -4_
She's the combination
-4  -4  3*  2  -2*  3*  -3
Called the Wabash Cannonball

-3  2  2  -3  -4  5*  6_
She came down from Birmingham
6  5*  5*  -4  -3  -1_
One cold December day
-2*  -2*  2  2  3*  -4  5*  -4_
As she rolled into the station
-4  3*    3*  -2*  2_
You could hear all the people say
2  2  2  -3  -4  5*  6_
There's a girl from Tennessee
6  5*  5*  -4  -3  -1_
She's long and she's tall
-2*  -2*  2  2  3*  -4  5*  -4_
She came down from Birmingham
-4  -4  3*  2  -2*  3*  -3__
On the Wabash Cannonball
(Interlude Then Repeat)
(Interlude Then Repeat Last Verse)

Our eastern states are dandies
So the people always say
From New York to St. Louis
And Chicago by the way
From the hills of Minnesota
Where the rippling waters fall
No changes can be taken
On the Wabash Cannonball

Here's to Daddy Claxton
May his name forever stand
And always be remembered
'Round the courts of Alabam
His earthly race is over
And the curtains round him fall
We'll carry home to vic'try
On the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle
And the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodlands
Through the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine
Hear that lonesome hobo squall
You're travlin' through the jungles
On the Wabash Cannonball

This plays with karaoke music, same Artist, run time 2:39.
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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