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The words are in the DigiTrad Database (the DT). If you typed in [solid gone] in the search engine in the upper-right hand corner of this page, you could have found them. The brackets [ ] tell it to search for that phrase. Click here if you want to peek at them. They are credited to Bruce Phillips. I would suspect that means U. Utah "Bruce" Phillips. I don't think he wrote the song, and I am surprised he stole from the tradition that way.

Here is the tab the way I sing it, borrowed from Tom Rush.

CANNONBALL BLUES

  C
  Well you can wash my jumper baby, starch my overalls,
                                  F
  I'm gonna ride that train they call the Cannonball,
             C  G              C
  From Buffalo down to Washington.

    

CHO:
           F                             C
  Now I'm down here cryin' 'cause she's gone.
  F                                  C     G
  Feel like I'm dying' 'cause she's gone.
              C
  She's solid gone.

    

Yonder comes that train, she's comin' down the track,
  Takin' me away, but she will not bring me back,
  My honey, babe, I'm a'leavin' you.

    

See that train a-coming, 'comin' round the bend,
  To carry me away and I won't come back again.
  Goodbye babe, I'm leaving you.

    

You know my baby left me, she even took my shoes,
  That's enough to give a man those dogone weary blues,
  Baby's gone, she's solid gone.

    

I'm going up North, going up North this fall,
  If my luck don't change, then I won't be back at all.
  My honey, babe, my blue-eyed gal.

Enjoy the music!

Roger in Baltimore