Southern Cannonball

Southern Cannonball - Hank Snow

I had to quit rail rollin'

And it didn't agree at all

There was always something wrong

With the Southern Cannonball

I once loved a maiden she was fair and tall

Her pa he was the engineer on the Southern Cannonball

She promised she would wed me

In the married month of June

And go to the magic island to spend our honeymoon

At last my dreams were shattered

When she put me off of the stall

She said the whistle was broken

On the Southern Cannonball

I loved this girl so dearly

So I fixed the whistle back

The next thing she told me

Was the caboose's off of the track

But days and nights I labored to

Get it back with the train

Always ready for my highball

When the bell refused to ring

I fixed the bell in a jiffy

And I called the preacher Dunn

Who married us in the old boxcar

For the train refused to run

We mede our home in a boomer shack

Out under the southern sky

And we rocked the baby to sleep each night

By a train whistle lullaby