Carter Family-Wabash Cannonball Chords

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_ [Bb] _ _ _ Out from the wide Pacific to [Eb] the broad Atlantic shore,
[F] She climbs Clowry Mountain or hills and [Bb] by the shore. _
Although she's tall and handsome [Eb] and she's known quite well by all,
[F] She's a regular combination of the [Bb] Wabash Cannonball.
_ Oh, the Eastern States are damned as [Eb] though the Western people stay,
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Chicago, Rock Island, St.
Louis [Bb] by the way,
To the lakes of Minnesota where [Eb] the rippling waters fall,
[F] No chance to be taken on the Wabash [Bb] Cannonball.
_ Oh, listen to the [Eb] jingles, the rumor and the roar,
[F] As she glides along the woodland or hills and by [Bb] the shore.
She climbs the Clowry Mountain [Eb] near the Mary Hobo stall,
[F] She glides along the woodland, the Wabash [Bb] Cannonball. _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ _ Oh, here's old Daddy Clayton, [Eb] let his name forever be,
[F] And long be remembered in the courts of [Bb] Tennessee.
_ For he is a good old rounder [Eb] till the curtain round him fall,
[F] If he's carried back to victory on the Wabash [Bb] Cannonball.
_ I have rode the IC Limited, [Eb] also the Royal Blue,
[F] Across the Eastern countries on the [Bb] Elkhorn No.
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_ I have rode those highball trains [Eb] from coast to coast, that's all,
[F] But I have found no equals to the Wabash [Bb] Cannonball.
_ Oh, listen to the [Eb] jingles, the rumor and the roar,
[F] As she glides along the woodland or hills and [Bb] by the shore.
She climbs the Clowry Mountain [Eb] near the Mary Hobo stall,
[F] She glides along the woodland, the Wabash [Bb] Cannonball. _ _ _
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