A. P. Carter recorded THE CANNONBALL in his beautiful plaintive way. There is a little bit of the White House Blues (Charlie Poole), but it is really a different song.

You can wash my jumpers, starch my overalls,
Catch that train they call the Cannonball,
From Buffalo to Washington.

Yonder comes the train coming down the track.
It'll carry me away but it ain't a-going to carry me back,
My honey babe, my blue-eyed babe.

My baby left me. She even took my shoes.
Enough to give me the doggone weary 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.

There's a certain poignancy in A. P. Carter's voice that is not reproducible. Happy to be of help. PARISH

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