A long steel rail and a short crosstie

I'm on my way back home

I'm on the train, the king of them all

The Streamlined Cannonball

(Chorus)

Oh, she drives along like a cannonball

Like a star on its heavenly flight

This lonesome sound of the whistle you love

As she travels thru the night

Her headlight gleams out into the night

Her firebox flash you see

The blinds I ride and the lights I love

Are home, sweet home, to me

(Repeat chorus)

I can see the smile of an engineer

Although he's old and gray

A contented heart he awaits back home

Of the Streamlined Cannonball

(Repeat chorus)