From the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific shore

From the queen of flowing mountains to the Southbell by the shore

She's mighty tall and handsome

She's known for well by all

She's a better combination called on Wabash Cannonball

She came down the Birmingham on one cold December day

As she pulled into the station

You could hear all the people say

"There's a girl from Tennessee she's long and she's tall

She came down the Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball"

Our eastern states are dandy 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 and may his name forever stand

And always be remembered in the courts of Alabam

And his earthly race is over

And the curtains round him fall

We'll carry home to victory on the Wabash Cannonball