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Cannonball Run Lyrics

Artist: Ray Stevens

What do you say when you write with no words?
(feeling)
Feel a song that's never been heard?
(sing it)
How do know if you did it all?
(answer)
What do you do when you've done it all?
(ball)

[Bridge]Cannonball (cannonball)
Cannonball (cannonball)
Cannonball

[Chorus]It's not what you do
It's how you do it.
Be anything you want to be
It's not what you got
It's how you use it
You be you
And I'll be me
It's just a matter of style
You can fake it
Mile after mile
Feeling free
If you got the soul
you can make it
Move-em out (move 'em out)
Let 'em roll (let 'em roll)
From sea to shining sea
Ball (ball)
Cannonball (cannonball)

What do you do if a mountain is there?
(move it)
How do you answer to a challenge in today?
(take it)
When your back's against the wall?
(fake it)
What do you do when you've done it all?
(ball)

[Bridge]
[Chorus]

Cannonball! (cannonball-cannonball)

Comments/Interpretations

by CARL JOHNSON on 1/24/2010 1:55pm
I LIKE THE SONG CANNONBALL. I WISHED IT WAS ON CD.

by AlexanderTS on 2/10/2010 2:17pm
Very great song!

I hear it almost EVERY day!

by Come On on 2/29/2012 12:16am
It's "What do you say when there are no words" not
"What do you say when you write with no words" which doesn't even make any sense! Are you speaking or writing?
Also: "feel it" not "feeling"
"How do you know when you hear the call" instead of the garbage you have for the third line
And I'm pretty sure that it's "you can't fake it"

by Michiko on 6/9/2012 7:40am
Thank you Mr. "Come On" You are totally right! the original one lost the real sense of the song. I am using this for the wedding song in one week!!! from Tokyo

by Federico on 8/25/2013 2:39pm
This is the soundtrack of my trip to go to the job! Yeah!

by Fudd on 8/31/2014 3:59pm
Good lord.

"What do you say when you write with no words?"=
What do you say when there are no words?

Feeling= Feel it.

"How do know if you did it all?"=
How do you know when ya hear the call?

"You can fake it"=
You can't fake it.

"What do you do if a mountain is there?"=
What do you do when a mountain is there?

"How do you answer to a challenge in today?"=
How do you answer the challenging dare?

1. See an audiologist immediately.
2. Take ESL
3. Listen to the actual song at least once.
4. Remove this page and start over.
5. Have the decency to publish an apology to Ray Stevens. You couldn't have butchered this song worse if you had used pig-Latin Esperanto read by a Tourette's patient missing his dentures while drunk after three shots of Novacaine.

by Daniel Lorenz on 12/29/2016 11:38am
So cool !

by Observer on 4/24/2019 10:09am
It makes me glad to know that not only am I not the only person who ever looked this shit up, but others have seemed to really marinate the lyrics enough to correct another. We must all be the same age or close to it.

by George Mason University on 1/15/2021 3:22am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFB6FfaNQ40

by Wideshire on 5/31/2023 2:02am
Those are wrong. It is:

What do you say when there are no words?
Beat it.

Feel a song that's never been heard?
Sing it.

How do you know when you hear the call?
Answer it.

What do you do when you've done it all?
Ball.

Cannonball!
It's not what you do it's how you do it. Be anything you wanna be.
It's not what you got its how you use it. You be you and I'll be me.
It's just a matter of style - you can't fake it.
Mile after mile feeling free.
If you've got the soul - you can make it.

Move 'em out
Let 'em roll
From sea to shining sea

What do you do when the mountain is there?
Move it.
How do you answer to challenging death?
Take it.
When your back's against the wall?
Fake it.
What do you do when you've done it all?
Ball.

by Esteban on 12/8/2023 9:55am
Way to butcher those lyrics