Southern Cannonball

Southern Cannonball - George Jones (喬治·瓊斯)/The McKinney Sisters

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

And we married in the 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 cabooses off of the track

But days and nights a labored to get

This back off of a train

Always ready for my highball

When the bell refused to ring

I fixed the bell in a jiffy and

I called the preacher done

Who married us in the old boxcar

For the train refused to run

We mede our home in a boomer

Shack I loved that southern sky

And we rocked the baby to sleep

Each night by a train whistle lullaby