We'd like to do a little request number,
one that's been a favorite all down through the years.
The folks that asked for this one,
they called it the Wabash Cannonball
down around the Grand Ole Opry.
We call it Roy Aker.
Of course,
Roy always depends on Brother Oswald
to kind of help him a little bit.
Maybe Uncle Josh will take his part.
We'll try to do it for the folk, Josh.
On
the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific shore
We know glowing mountains to the south they'll bow the shore
She's tall and handsome and all quite well by all
She's a combination on the Wabash Cannonball
Now she came down from Birmingham on cold December day
As she pulled into the station you could hear all the people say
Tennessee,
she's long and she's tall
She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball
Our eastern states are dangerous so the people always say
From New York to St. Louis and Chicago by the way
From the hill to Minnesota where the rippling waters flow
No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball
Maybe some of you folks have seen our good
buddy Roy Aker do this number a lot of times.
If you ever notice when he gets to sounding real good to him,
he'll run way back,
put
his hand over his ear and sound just
a little bit like this right here.
Let me hear you one more time, Oswald.
I'll make sure.
I heard the jingle from the land
God's long woodland, the hilt and pine
Hear the mighty rush of the ancient hail on the moon
Traveling through the jolly long Wabash Cannonball