Oh listen to the train coming down the line   Trying to make up all of her lost time   From Buffalo to Washington   You can wash my jumper    Starch my overalls   Catch the train they call the Cannonball   From Buffalo to Washington      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      My baby's left me she even took my shoes   Enough to give a man    These doggoned worried blues   She's gone she's solid gone      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