Текст песни Wabash Cannonball / Tolono (Utah Phillips) с переводом

Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar as sheglides along the woodland

ore the hills and by the shore

hear the rush of the mighty engine hear the lonesome hobos call

he’s riding through the jungle on the Wabash cannon ball

VERSE

now the western states are dandies so the southernpeople say from Chicago

and St. Louis

and Peoria by the way

to the lake of Minnesota where the rippling waters flow no chances to be

taken on

the Wabash cannon ball

VERSE

she pulled in to the station one cold December day

as she rolled up to the platform you could hear all the people say

now theirs a gal from Birmingham she’s Elong and she’s tall she came down

from Georgia

on the Wabash cannon ball

VERSE

now heres to daddy claxton may his name forever stand

and always be remembered in the courts of all the land

his earthly race is over and as the curtain falls

we’ll carry him back to Dixie on the Wabash cannon ball

Wabash Cannonball

I was headed for Tolono on the Wabash Cannonball

Norfolk and Western all the way

St. Louis down the line, Detroit somewhere behind

I thought I heard that old conductor say

No round trip ticket, you’re on the final run

This Cannonball is never comin' back

Tomorrow she’ll just be another memory

And an echo down a rusty railroad track

I got off at Tolono, just below Champagne

A flagstop on the edge of yesterday

The whistle blew a song, I whispered «So long»

Waved my hand and slowly walked away

No round trip ticket, you’re on the final run

This Cannonball is never comin' back

Tomorrow she’ll just be another memory

And an echo down a rusty railroad track

I think about tomorrow, wonder why it is

We give up all the things we love the most

Goodbye, you old hog. I’ll have to ride the Dog

Till they build a subway coast to coast

But no round trip ticket, you’re on the final run

This Cannonball is never comin' back

Tomorrow she’ll just be another memory

And an echo down a rusty railroad track

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