The City Of New Orleans
Arlo Guthrie
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Riding on the City of New Orleans
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Illinois Central Monday morning rail
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Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
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Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
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All along the south bound odyssey
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The train pulls out of Kankakee
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Rolls along past houses farms and fields
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Passing trains that have no name
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Freight yards full of old black men
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And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
CHORUS
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Good morning America, how are you?
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Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son
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I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
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I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
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Dealing card games with the old men in the club car
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Penny a point ain't no one keeping score
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Pass the paper bag but holds the bottle
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Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor
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And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
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Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
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Mothers with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat
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And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
CHORUS
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Night time on the City of New Orleans
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Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
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Half way home we'll be there by morning
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Through the Mississippi darkness
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Rolling down to the sea
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But all the towns and people seem
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To fade into a bad dream
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And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
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The conductor sings his songs again
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The passengers will please refrain
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This train´s got the disappearing railroad blues
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Good night America, how are you?
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Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son
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I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
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I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
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