Doc Watson – Streamline Cannonball (Guitar)

       C
It's a long steel rail and a short cross tie

    F              C
I'm on my way back home

    C       F           C            Am
I'm on that train, the king of them all

     C           G     C
That streamlined cannonball

C
She moves along like a cannonball

       F                    C
Like a star in its heavenly flight

    C        F            C           Am
The lonesome sound of the whistle you love

   C           G           C
As she travels through the night

C
I can see a smile on the engineer's face

      F                   C
And although he's old and gray

C           F         C             Am
A contented heart, he waits for his call

       C          G     C
On the streamline cannonball

C
She moves along like a cannonball

       F                    C
Like a star in its heavenly flight

    C        F              C           Am
The lonesome sound from the whistle you love

   C           G           C
As she travels through the night

C
The headlight beams out in the night

        F                     C
And the firebox flash you can see

C           F                C           Am
I ride them blinds, it's the life that I love

           C          G       C
Lord, it's home sweet home to me

C
She moves along like a cannonball

       F                    C
Like a star in its heavenly flight

    C        F            C           Am
The lonesome sound of the whistle you love

   C           G           C
As she travels through the night

C       G           C
Travels through the night       (Fade)