No Roundtrip Ticket
Utah Phillips
Starlight on the Rails

Banjo tuned E, Capo2, Key E

No Roundtrip Ticket  Last half of Wabash Cannonball track

 E                               B7
Headed for Tolono on the Wabash Cannonball
  A                          E
Norfolk and Western, all the way
E7  A                
St Louis down the line
    E
Detroit somewhere behind
                                     B7
I thought I heard that old conductor say,

Chorus:
  E           E7
No round trip ticket

This Cannonball is never coming back
                                B7
Tomorrow she'll be just another memory,
     A                          E
An echo down a rusty railroad track


I got off at Tolono, just below Champaign,
A flag stop on the edge of yesterday;
The whistle blew a song, I whispered, "So long,"
Waved my hand and slowly walked away.

I think about tomorrow and 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
Until they build a subway coast to coast.

Copyright �1973, 2000 Bruce Phillips