Oh, listen to the train coming down the line   Trying to make up all their lost time   From Buffalo to Washington      You can wash my jumper starch my overalls   Catch a train they call the Cannonball   From Buffalo to Washington      My baby's left me, she even took my shoes   Enough to give a man these doggone worried blues   She's gone, she's solid gone      Yonder comes the train, coming down the track   Carry me away but it ain't gonna carry me back   My honey babe, my blue eyed babe      I'm going up north, I'm going up north this fall   If luck don't change, I won't be back at all   My honey babe, I'm leaving you