Streamlined Cannonball

(Roy Acuff)



(It's the Streamlined Cannonball.)



A long steel rail and a short crosstie

I'm on my way back home

I'm on the train the king of them all

The Streamlined Cannonball.



For she glides along like a cannonball

Like a star on it's heavenly flight

This lonesome sound of the whistle you love

As she travels through the night.



Her headlight gleams out into the night

Her firebox flash you see

The blinds I ride and the lights I love

Are home, sweet home to me.



For she glides along like a cannonball

Like a star on it's heavenly flight

This lonesome sound of the whistle you love

As she travels through the night.



(The lonesome sound of the whistle you love

It's the Streamlined Cannonball.)



I can see the smile of an engineer

Although he's old and gray

A contented heart he awaits back home

Of the Streamlined Cannonball.



For she glides along like a cannonball

Like a star on it's heavenly flight

This lonesome sound of the whistle you love

As she travels through the night...