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The Wabash Cannonball (chrom)

by Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash · posted by WaltP

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab
THE WABASH CANNONBALL
Trad. Folk
Roy Acuff, Hank Williams Jr.,
Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash
Key: G

 -1  -1   -1   -1  3  -3 -4  -5
From the great At-lan-tic o-cean 
-5 -5   -4  -4 -3  3    1
to the wide Pa-ci-fic shore
 2   2   -1   -1  -2* -3  -4  -3
Saw the queen of flow-ing riv-ers
 -3  -3  -2*   3  -2*  2   -1
Might-y moun-tains by the score
 -1    -1  -1   -1    3   -3   -4   -5
She's long and she’s tall and hand-some
-5   -5    -4   -4 -3   3   1
Yes she’s loved by one and all
  2   2 -1  -1  -2* -3 -4  -3
She's a mod-ern com-bi-na-tion
  -3   -3  -2* -1   2  -2*  3
Called the Wa-bash Can-non-ball

Chorus:

-1  -1  3  -3  -4  -5
lis-ten to the jin-gle
-5  -4  -4  -3   3   1
The rum-ble and the roar
-1  -1    -2*   -3   -4   -3
Rid-ing through the wood-lands
-3 -3   -2*   3 -2*  2   -1  
To the hills and by the shore
 -1  -1   -1  -1  3   -3 -3  -4  -5
Hear the might-y rush of the en-gine
 -5  -5   -4   -4  -3  3   1
Hear the lone-some ho-bo squall
-1  -1    -2*   -3  -4  -3
Rid-ing through the jun-gle
-3 -3  -2* -1   2  -2*  3
On the Wa-bash Can-non-ball

Your eastern states are dandies
So the people always say
From New York to St. Louis
And Chicago by the way
Through the hills of Minnesota
Where the rippling waters fall
No changes can be taken
On the Wabash Cannonball

Chorus

Here's to Daddy Klaxton
May his name forever stand
And alwyas be remembered
Through the courts of Alabam'
His earthly race is over
The curtains 'round him fall
We'll carry him on to Glory
On the Wabash Cannonball

Chorus

She pulled in to the station 
one cold December day
As she rolled up to the platform
you could hear all the people say
There's a gal from Tennessee; 
she's long and she's tall 
She came down from Birmingham 
on the Wabash Cannonball

Chorus


Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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