City Of New Orleans-Country Crusaders

[ti:City of New Orleans] [ar:Ameritz Tribute Club] [al:Always On My Mind - A Tribute to Willie Nelson] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]City Of New Orleans - Country Crusaders [00:06.84]Ridin' on the City of New Orleans [00:11.48] [00:13.21]Illinois Central Monday morning rail [00:17.39] [00:19.70]Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders [00:24.01] [00:26.04]Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail [00:30.57] [00:32.16]All along the southbound odyssey [00:35.51]The train pulls out of Kankakee [00:38.87]And rolls along past houses farms and fields [00:43.88] [00:45.27]Passing trains that have no name [00:48.22]And graveyards full of old black men [00:51.34]And graveyards full of rusted automobiles [00:56.34] [00:58.08]Good morning America how are you Say [01:04.37]Don't you know me I'm your native son [01:09.17] [01:09.68]I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans [01:15.44] [01:16.41]And I'll be gone five hundred [01:19.59]Miles when the day is done [01:21.90] [01:26.59]Dealin' cards with an old man in the club car [01:31.54] [01:33.30]Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score [01:38.33] [01:39.67]Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle [01:44.47] [01:45.94]And feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor [01:50.58] [01:51.93]And the sons of poor men porters [01:55.40]And the sons of engineers [01:58.30]Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel [02:03.02] [02:05.24]Mothers with their babes asleep [02:08.41]Rockin' to that gentle beat [02:11.26]And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel [02:16.23] [02:18.02]Good morning America how are you Say [02:24.58]Don't you know me I'm your native son [02:28.40] [02:29.73]And I'll be gone five hundred miles [02:39.72]When the day is done [02:43.08] [03:09.32]Night time on the City of New Orleans [03:15.63]Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee [03:20.06] [03:22.05]Half way home we'll be there by morning [03:26.54] [03:28.10]Through the Mississippi darkness [03:29.97]Rolling down to the sea [03:32.69] [03:34.74]And all the towns and people [03:36.93]Seem to fade into a bad dream [03:41.03]And the steel rails still ain't heard the news [03:46.04] [03:47.50]The conductor sings his songs again [03:50.43]The passengers will please refrain [03:53.62]This train has got the disappearing railroad blues [03:58.52] [04:00.45]Good morning America how are you Say [04:06.85]Don't you know me I'm your native son [04:11.57] [04:12.12]I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans [04:19.06]And I'll be gone five hundred miles [04:21.93]When the day is done