- Written by
- A.P. Carter
- Language
- English
- Comments
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There are some similarities with "White House Blues" as recorded by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers. This was probably one of several sources used by A.P. Carter to create this work.
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
Yonder comes the train
Coming down the track
Carry me away
But it ain't gonna carry me back
My honey babe my blue eyed babe
My baby's left me she even took my shoes
Enough to give a man
These doggoned worried 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 - Published by
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Cannonball Blues written by A.P. Carter English
Cannonball Blues written by A.P. Carter instrumental
| Title | Performer | Release date | Info | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| i | Cannonball Blues | Flatt & Scruggs | March 1964 | ||
| i | Cannonball Blues | Edith Roberts | 1967 | ||
| i | Cannon Ball Blues | Larry Sparks and The Lonesome Ramblers | April 1970 | ||
| i | Cannonball | The Seldom Scene | 1972 | ||
| i | Cannonball - John Hardy - Rawhide | Mike Lilly and Wendy Miller | 1976 | Medley | |
| i | Cannonball Blues | Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass | 1979 | ||
| i | Cannonball Blues | Ernest Thomas & His Bluegrass Pioneers | 1982 | ||
| i | Cannonball Blues | Marty Stuart | June 19, 1992 | Released more than 10 years after its recording | |
| i | Cannonball Blues | Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys | May 26, 2017 |