G
    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.