Song: Wabash Cannon Ball

Written by:	William Kindt
Originally written by:	J. A. Roff
Publication date:	1904
Language:	English
Adapted from:	The Great Rock Island Route!! written by J. A. Roff
Comments:	A further re-writing of the song was probaly made before Kindt copyrighted it.

Adaptation tree

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Wabash Cannonball	The Carter Family	1932
2	Wabash Cannonball	"Little" Jimmy Dickens with the Country Boys	November 1957
3	Wabash Cannonball	Eddy Arnold	February 1959
4	Wabash Cannonball	Blind Willie McTell	1960
5	Wabash Cannonball	Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours	December 1960
6	Wabash Cannonball	Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson	1961
7	Wabash Cannonball	Jack Elliott	1962
8	Wabash Cannonball	Hank Locklin	September 1962
9	Wabash Cannonball	The Ventures	1963
10	Wabash Cannonball	Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys	1964
11	Wabash Cannonball	Connie Francis & Hank Williams, Jr	1964
12	Wabash Cannonball	Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs	June 5, 1965
13	Wabash Cannonball	Johnny Cash	October 1966
14	Wabash Cannonball	The Louvin Brothers	1967
15	Wabash Cannonball	Chet Atkins	1967
16	Wabash Cannonball	Bonnie Owens and The Strangers	1968
17	Wabash Cannonball	Jerry Reed	1968
18	Wabash Cannonball	Billy Walker	1968
19	Wabash Cannonball	The Charlatans	1969
20	Wabash Cannonball	Carl Smith	1969
21	Wabash Cannonball	Jim & Jesse	1970
22	Wabash Cannonball	Willie Nelson	March 1970
23	Wabash Cannonball	Hank Snow	1971
24	Wabash Cannonball	Bashful Brother Oswald	1972
25	Wabash Cannonball	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	1972
26	Wabash Cannonball	Boots Randolph	1974
27	Wabash Cannonball	Front Porch String Band	1992
28	Wabash Cannonball	Townes Van Zandt	1994
29	Wabash Cannonball	Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys

Added by Quentin on 2009-02-16
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The Ballad of Lucy Jordan by Marianne Faithfull was originally written by Shel Silverstein and performed by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show in 1974.