I was just remembering all the times of watching tv baseball games.... on Saturdays a few years ago. In the 1950's, and into the 1960's. A huge tradition when Peewee Reese was broadcasting, was his partner Dizzy Dean. Who every game would launch into a rendition of "The Wabash Cannonball." BoxcabE50
You are correct Boxcab. My wife and I loved to listen to Pee Wee and Dizzy broadcasting the games and especially when Dizzy would sing the Wabash Cannonball. If nothing else, that made the game worth listening to. [ 08 July 2002, 03:32: Message edited by: Telegrapher ]
Here you Go Boys The Wabash Cannonball Hobo Ballad Written By: Theodore Dreiser Copyright Unknown From the great Atlantic Ocean To the wide Pacific shore To the queen of flowing mountains To the southbell by the door She's long and tall and handsome And loved by one and all She's a modern combination Called the Wabash Cannonball Oh listen to the jingle The rumble and the roar As she glides along the woodlands Through the hills and by the shores Hear the mighty rush of engines Hear the lonesome hobos' call We're travelling through the jungles On the Wabash Cannonball The eastern states are dandies So the western people say From New York to St. Louis And Chicago by the way Through the hills of Minnesota Where the rippling waters fall No chances can be taken On the Wabash Cannonball Oh listen to the jingle The rumble and the roar As she glides along the woodlands Through the hills and by the shores Hear the mighty rush of engines Hear the lonesome hobos' call We're travelling through the jungles On the Wabash Cannonball Here's to Daddy Klaxton May his name forever stand And always be remembered Through the courts throughout the land His earthly race is over Now the curtains 'round him fall We'll carry him home to victory On the Wabash Cannonball! [ 09 July 2002, 16:17: Message edited by: LadySunshine ]
Barb, we should start a thread on "how many artists recorded that song??" I think the first time I heard it, it was Johnny Cash. There were many bluegrass artists who did it. How about some others?
