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.