City Of New Orleans

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[Verse]

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Riding on the City of New Orleans
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Illinois Central, Monday morning rail
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There's 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, the train pulls out at Kankakee
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Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
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Passing trains that have no names
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And 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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I said 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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[Verse]

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Dealing cards with the old men in the club car
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A penny a point, there ain't no one keeping score
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Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
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I can feel the wheels a-grumbling 'neath the floor
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And the sons of Pullman porters
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And the sons of engineers
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Ride their fathers magic carpet made of steel
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And the mothers with their babes asleep
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Go rocking to the gentle beat
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And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel


[Chorus]

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Good morning America, how are you?
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I said 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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[Verse]

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Night time on the City of New Orleans
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We're changing cars for Memphis, Tennessee
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We're halfway home and we'll be there by morning
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Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea
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And 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


[Chorus]

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Good Night America, how are you
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I said 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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Good Night America, how are you
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I said 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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I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done