Streamline Cannonball

Key of C · Chords: I IV V vi

Verse 1

       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 streamline cannonball

Chorus

    C
She moves along like a cannonball
       F            C
Like a star in it’s heavenly flight
    C        F        C           Am
The lonesome sound of the whistle you love
   C   G               C
As she travels through the night

Verse 2

  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 the waits for his call
       C          G         C
On the streamline cannonball

Verse 3

    C
The headlight beams out in the night
        F                 C
And the firebox flash you can see
  C    F               C        Am
I ride the blinds it’s the life that I love
          C    G          C
Lord it’s home sweet home to me