From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore
   From the queen of flowing mountains to the south bells by the shore
   She's mighty tall and handsome she's known quite well by all
   She's the combination on the Wabash Cannonball
   She came down from Birmingham one cold December day
   As she rolled into the station 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
  
   Our eastern states're dandy so all the people say
   From New York to St Louis and Chicago by the way
   From the hills of Minnesotta where the wrippling waters fall
   No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball
   So here's to daddy Claxton may his name forever stand
   And always be remembered in the ports throughout the land
   His earthly race is over the curtains round him fall
   We'll carry him home to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball
  
   So listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar
   As she glides along the woodland through the hills and by the shore
   Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear the lonesome hoboes squall
   Traveling through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball
   You're traveling through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball