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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:16:52 -0400
From: "F. D. Lewis" <lewisfd@hotmail.com>
Subject: Streamline Cannonball
Streamline Cannonball
Words and Music by Roy Acuff
Recorded by lots of folks including Acuff, Hank Snow, Doc Watson, Jim
Ringer, and Jerry Garcia.
3/4 time
[G]A long steel rail and a short cross tie
[C]I'm on my way back [G]home
I'm [C]on that train, the [G]king of them all
The streamline [D7]cannon[G]ball
Chorus
[G]She moves along like a cannonball
Like a [C]star in it's heavenly [G]flight
The [C]lonesome sound of the [G]whistle you love
As she travels [D7]through the [G]night
I can see a smile on the engineer's face
And although he's old and gray
With a contented heart, he waits for his call
On the streamline cannonball
The headlight beams out in the night
And the firebox flash you can see
I ride the blinds, it's the life that I love
Lord it's home sweet home to me