Cannonball Blues

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    Oh, listen to the train coming down the line,
                                 C
    trying to make up all of her lost time,
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    from Buffalo        to Washington.

                     G
    You can wash my jumper starch my overalls,
                                     C
    catch the train they call the Cannonball,
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    from Buffalo to       Washington:

            G
    My baby's left me, she even took my shoes,
                                                   C
    enough to give a man these doggone worried blues,
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    she's gone,         she's solid gone.

       G
    Yonder comes the train coming down the track,
                                        C
    carry me away, but it ain't gonna carry me back,
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    my honey babe,       my blue eyed babe.

            G
    I'm going up north, I'm going up north this fall,
                                        C
    if luck don't change I won't be back at all,
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    my honey babe,          I'm leaving you.