A long steel rail, a short crosstie    I'm on my way back home   I'm on the train, the king of them all    The Streamlined Cannonball      She moves along like a cannonball    Like a star on its heavenly flight   This lonesome sound of the whistle you love    As she travels through the night      Her headlight gleams out into the night    Her firebox flash you see   The blinds I ride and the lights I love    It's home sweet home to me      She moves along like a cannonball    Like a star on its heavenly flight   This lonesome sound of the whistle you love    As she travels through the night      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      She moves along like a cannonball    Like a star on its heavenly flight   This lonesome sound of the whistle you love    As she travels through the night