verse: out from the wide pacific ocean to the broad atlantic shore she climbs flowery mountain, o'r hills and by the shore although she's tall and handsome, and she's known quite well by all she's a regular combination of the wabash cannonball. verse: oh, the eastern states are dandy, so the western people say chicago, rock island, st. louis by the way to the lakes of minnesota where the rippling waters fall no chances to be taken on the wabash cannonball. chorus: oh, listen to the jingle, the rumor and the roar as she glides along the woodland, o'r hills and by the shore she climbs the flowery mountain, hear the merry hobos squall she glides along the woodland, the wabash cannonball.