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GUEST,Elliot	Origin: Wabash Cannonball - meaning (40)	RE: Wabash Cannonball - meaning of lyrics	27 Apr 07
Ah yes! Hank Williams' Pan American. I'd learned that song well before I'd heard Roy Acuff singing Wabash Cannonball and I thought "wait just a minute......a train song with a VERY similar melody.....who's ripping off who?" But now I've figured Hank was probably making an answer-song to the Wabash Cannonball (as hinted in the first line of Pan-American: "I have heard your stories about your fast trains..."). One more question though.. In Acuff's version, is he talking about the train, or an actual girl, in the second verse? -Elliot

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