I just listened to this song on Spotify and transcribed it. It has one more verse than the version posted by fox4zero above, the verses are in a different order, and there are some minor differences in wording. Also, the title is somewhat different. I suspect this is a case of someone posting lyrics from memory a long time after they learned it. That's one way the "folk process" works, I guess.


CANNON BALL BLUES
As sung by the Carter Family on "Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family" (2000)

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.

My baby's left me; she even took my shoes,
Enough to give a man these doggone worried blues.
She's gone; she's solid gone.

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

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.