Jimmie Rodgers – Southern Cannon Ball (Guitar)

| D | A D |
(yodelin' locomotive)

D
Oh, I had to quit railroading, we didn't agree at all

G                D                        A              D
There was always something wrong with the Southern Cannonball

                       G                D
I once loved a maiden, she was fair and tall

    G              D               E              A
Her father was the engineer on the Southern Cannonball

    D                                 D/G            D
She promised she would wed me, in the merry month of June

    G               D                A        D
And go to the Magic Islands to spend our honeymoon

| A7/D | D |
(yodel)

                                           G                 D
At last my dreams were shattered, when she put me off with a stall

    E/A                  D             E              A
She said the whistle was broken on the Southern Cannonball

  D                              D/G
I loved this girl so dearly so I fixed the whistle back

    G              D                       D/A
The next thing she told me, the caboose is off of the track

| D A |
(yodel)

D                                G                    D
For days and nights I labored to get it back with the train

    G             D                      E               D
And all was ready for the high ball, the bell refused to ring

| D A | D |
(yodel)

                                G                   D
I fixed the bell in a jiffy and called the preacher done

    E                    D              A                D
Who married us in an old boxcar for the train refused to run

| D | A D | D A7 | D |
(yodel)