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Anya posed in this garden behind a house in Kiev, Ukraine.
Today’s youtube is the country music classic Wabash Cannonball. This song was a big hit for Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys back in the 1950s.
On this Carson Haney television show, Roy Acuff sings. Brother Oswald is on dobro, Charlie Collins on guitar. Joe Green on fiddle. Jimmy Reynolds on chromatic harp. Earl Sneed on banjo. Horny Wheeler on harmonica and train whistle sound.
Jerry Reed picks Wabash Cannonball on The Porter Waggoner Show.
Here is an instrumental version of Wabash Cannonball by finger-picking guitar picker Doyle Dyles.
Roy Acuff: WABASH CANNONBALL
From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore
from the green old flowing mountains to the south down by the moor
She’s mighty tall and handsome she’s know quite well by all
She’s the combination on the Wabash Cannonball
Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland o’er the hills and by the shore
Hear the rush of the mighty engine, hear the lonesome hobo’s call
You’re travelin’ through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball
Now the eastern states are dandy so the people always say
From Chicago and St. Louis and Peoria by the way
To the lake of Minnesota where the rippling waters flow
No Changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball
She came down from Birmingham one cold December day
As she rolled into the station you could hear all the people say
Now theirs a gal from Tennessee she’s long and she’s tall
She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball
Now here’s to Daddy Claxton may his name forever stand
And always be remembered in the courts of all the land
His earthly race is over and as the curtains round him fall
We’ll carry him back to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball
