City Of New Orleans-Steve Goodman

[ti:City Of New Orleans] [ar:Steve Goodman] [al:Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]City Of New Orleans - Steve Goodman [00:01.57]Ridin' on the city of new orleans [00:05.08] [00:06.88]Illinois central monday mornin' rail [00:11.62]Illionois fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders [00:16.01] [00:17.55]Three conductors twenty-five sacks of mail [00:21.18] [00:22.42]There are out on the southbound odyssey [00:25.35]The train pulls out of kakakee [00:27.80] [00:28.76]And it rolls along past houses [00:30.06]Farms and fields [00:32.30] [00:33.86]Passin' towns that have no name [00:36.24]Freight yards full of old black men [00:38.54]And the graveyards of rusted automobiles [00:42.88] [00:43.73]Say good morning america how are you [00:47.89] [00:49.43]Say don't you know me [00:51.09]I'm your native son [00:53.13] [00:54.25]Yes I'm the train they call [00:56.45]The city of new orleans [00:58.92] [01:00.21]I'll be gone five hundred miles [01:02.25]When the day is done [01:03.87] [01:05.54]And I was dealin' cards with [01:07.10]The old men in the club car [01:09.69] [01:11.01]It's penny a point ain't nobody keepin' score [01:15.44] [01:16.23]Won't you pass the paper bag that holds the bottle [01:20.51] [01:21.87]You can feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor [01:25.65] [01:27.35]And the sons of pullman porters [01:29.42] [01:30.29]And the sons of engineers [01:32.35]Ride their daddy's magic carpet make of steel [01:38.17]Mothers with their babes asleep [01:40.88]Are rockin' to the gentle beat [01:43.67]And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel [01:48.25]Just saying good morning america how are you [01:52.47] [01:54.25]Say don't you know me [01:55.98]I'm your native son [01:58.51] [01:59.21]I'm the train they call the city of new orleans [02:03.75] [02:05.21]I'll be gone five hundred miles [02:07.29]When the day is done [02:08.91] [02:16.58]Nighttime on the city of new orleans [02:20.12] [02:21.91]Changin' cars in memphis tennessee [02:25.45] [02:27.18]Halfway home we'll be there by mornin' [02:31.37] [02:32.49]Thru the mississippi darkness [02:33.77]Rollin' down to the sea [02:36.24] [02:38.23]But all the towns and people seem [02:40.72]To fade into a bad dream [02:43.01] [02:43.65]And the steel rail still ain't heard the news [02:47.09] [02:48.69]The conductor sings that song again [02:51.30]The passengers will please refrain [02:54.29]This train's got the disappearin' railroad blues [02:58.11] [02:58.70]Just saying good morning america how are you [03:03.21] [03:04.63]Say don't you know me I'm your native son [03:08.67] [03:09.49]I'm the train they call the city of new orleans [03:14.11] [03:15.45]I'll be gone five hundred miles [03:17.43]When the day is done [03:19.17] [03:20.29]Just saying good morning america how are you [03:24.67] [03:26.16]Say don't you know me I'm your native son [03:30.36] [03:31.07]I'm the train they call the city of new orleans [03:35.82] [03:37.07]I'll be gone long long time with that