Streamline Cannonball - Doc Watson

It’s a long steel rail and a short cross tie

I’m on my way back home

I’m on that train, the king of them all

That Streamline Cannonball

She moves along like a cannonball

Like a star in it’s heavenly flight

The lonesome sound of the whistle you love

As she travels through the night

I can see a smile on the engineer’s face

And although he’s old and gray

A contented heart, he waits for his call

On the Streamline Cannonball

She moves along like a cannonball

Like a star in it’s heavenly flight

The lonesome sound of the whistle you love

As she travels through the night

The headlight beams out in the night

And the firebox flash you can see

I ride the blinds.

It’s the life that I love

Lord, it’s home sweet home to me

She moves along like a cannonball

Like a star in it’s heavenly flight

The lonesome sound of the whistle you love

As she travels through the night