Cannonball blues (video)

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1. Oh, listen to the train coming down the line,

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trying to make up all of her lost time,

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from Buffalo to Washington.

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2. You can wash my jumper starch my overalls,

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catch the train they call the Cannonball,

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from Buffalo to Washington:

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3. My baby's left me, she even took my shoes,

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enough to give a man these doggone worried blues,

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she's gone, she's solid gone.

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4. Yonder comes the train coming down the track,

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carry me away, but it ain’t gonna carry me back,

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my honey babe, my blue eyed babe.

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5. I'm going up north, I'm going up north this fall,

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if luck don't change I won’t be back at all,

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my honey babe, I'm leaving you.

Recorded  5/24/30 Memphis, Tn, 5/10/35 New York, NY

6/10/36 New York, NY

(orig. capo 2nd) (The Carter Family)