The Cannon
Ball
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1. You can wash my jumper starch my overalls,
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catch a
train they call the Cannonball,
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from
Buffalo to Washington.
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2. Yonder comes the train, coming down the track,
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carry me
away, but it ain't going to carry me back,
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my honey
babe, my blue eyed babe.
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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 dog gone worried blues.
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Now she is gone, she's solid gone.
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4. 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.
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(The Carter Family)