New Orleans-Wynton Marsalis

[00:01.37]city of new orleans - various artists [00:03.88]riding on the city of new orleans [00:08.57]illinios central, monday morning rail [00:11.79] [00:13.99]15 cars and 15 restless riders [00:18.97]3 conductors and 25 sacks of mail [00:24.36]all along a southbound odyssey [00:27.04] [00:27.58]the train pulls out of kankakee [00:30.15]rolls along past houses, farms and fields [00:33.37] [00:35.90]passing trains that have no name [00:38.29]freight yards full of old black men [00:40.42] [00:41.11]the graveyards of the rusted automobiles [00:45.16] [00:46.77]singing good morning america, how are you? [00:49.70] [00:51.42]saying, don't you know me i'm your native son? [00:56.65]i'm the train they call the city of new orleans [01:02.10]i'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done [01:10.66]dealing cards with the old men in the club car [01:16.61]penny a point, ain't no one keeping score [01:21.49]pass the paper bag that holds the bottle [01:27.65]feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor [01:32.38]and the sons of pullman porters [01:35.09]and the sons of engineers [01:37.49]ride their fathers magic carpet made of steel [01:44.01]and mothers with their babes asleep [01:46.42]rockin to the gentle beat [01:49.21]and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel [01:54.84]singing good morning america, how are you? [01:59.54]saying don't you know me, i'm your native son? [02:04.75]i'm the train they call the city of new orleans [02:10.24]i'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done [02:18.77]nighttime on the city of new orleans [02:24.46]changing cars in memphis, tennessee [02:29.91]halfway home and well be there by morning [02:33.43] [02:34.96]through the mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea [02:40.40]but all the towns and people seem [02:43.40]to fade into a bad dream [02:45.93]and the steel rails still ain't heard the news [02:51.24]the conductor sings his song again [02:54.13]the passengers will please refrain [02:56.85]this train has got the disappearing railroad blues [03:02.65]singing good morning america, how are you? [03:07.23]saying don't you know me, i'm your native son? [03:12.54]i'm the train they call the city of new orleans [03:17.90]i'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done [03:23.63]i'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done [03:29.34]