Southern Cannonball-Hank Snow/Anita Carter

[ti:Southern Cannonball] [ar:Hank Snow] [al:Just Keep A Movin'] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Southern Cannonball - Hank Snow/Anita Carter [00:08.42]I had to quit rail rollin' and it didn't agree at all [00:12.39] [00:13.20]There was always something wrong [00:15.13]With the Southern Cannonball [00:16.10] [00:18.18]I once loved a maiden she was fair and tall [00:21.83] [00:22.48]Her pa he was the engineer on the Southern Cannonball [00:25.42] [00:45.86]She promised she would wed me [00:47.57] [00:48.10]And we married in the month of June [00:50.22]And go to the magic island to spend our honeymoon [00:53.32] [00:55.44]At last my dreams were shattered [00:56.74] [00:57.46]When she put me off of the stall [00:59.02] [00:59.70]She said the whistle was broken on the Southern Cannonball [01:02.58] [01:22.91]I loved this girl so dearly [01:25.09]So I fixed the whistle back [01:26.43] [01:27.35]The next thing she told me [01:29.23]Was the cabooses off of the track [01:30.77] [01:32.51]But days and nights a labored [01:34.01] [01:34.90]To get this back off of a train [01:36.97]Always ready for my highball [01:38.41] [01:38.93]When the bell refused to ring [01:40.13] [01:48.37]I fixed the bell in a jiffy [01:50.59]And I called the preacher done [01:51.82] [01:52.67]Who married us in the old boxcar [01:54.79]For the train refused to run [01:55.99] [01:57.99]We mede our home in a boomer shack [02:00.14]I loved that southern sky [02:01.38] [02:02.14]And we rocked the baby to sleep [02:03.76]Each night by a train whistle lullaby