Well, sorry that I did not check the DT, but Tolono was already listed. The only difference was that I changed the wording to agree with the way Utah sang it, as there are a few small differences. And of course, now you have his nifty notes.

I did notice that the version of the Wabash Cannonball given in the DT, was a later version which looked to be taken from Roy Acuff, who first recorded it about 1936. The Carter Family recorded it in 1929, but interestingly enough, Ralph Peer did not think much of it, and did not release it until 1932! Sara said she learned it from "a ballet down in Tennessee." The song had been published in sheet music in 1905, with composer credits to William Kindt. Knoxville singer Hugh Cross recorded the song a few months before the Carters. (Information paraphrased from the CD liner notes to Rounder 1066, volume 3 of the complete Carter Family Victor/Bluebird recordings.)

I transcribed the song exactly as sung, though there are a couple of obvious errors in her wording. In the last stanza, she pronounces equal as eqal.

Wabash Cannonball
William Kindt, 1905 (as sung by The Carter Family, 1929)

Out from the wide Pacific to the broad Atlantic shore
She climbs a flow’ry mountain, o'er hills and by the shore
Although she's tall and handsome and she's known quite well by all
She's a reg’lar combination on the Wabash Cannonball.

Oh, the Eastern states are dandy, so the Western people say
Chicago, ol' Rock Island, St. Louis by the way
To the lakes of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall
No chances to be taken on the Wabash Cannonball.

CHORUS: Oh, listen to the jingle, the rumor and the roar
As she glides along the woodland, o'er hills and by the shore
She climbs the flow’ry mountain, hear the merry hobo squall
She glides along the woodland, the Wabash Cannonball.

Oh, here's old daddy Cleaton, let his name forever be
And long be remembered in the courts of Tennessee
For he is a good old rounder 'til the curtain round him fall
He'll be carried back to vict’ry on the Wabash Cannonball.

I have rode the I. C. Limited, also the Royal Blue
Across the Eastern countries on Elkhorn Number Two
I have rode those highball trains from coast to coast that's all
But I have found no eq’al to the Wabash Cannonball.

CHORUS