City Of New Orleans-Country Mix Series

[ti:City Of New Orleans] [ar:Willie Nelson] [al:One Hell Of A Ride] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]City Of New Orleans - Country Mix Series [00:06.96]Ridin' on the City of New Orleans [00:12.21] [00:13.21]I llinois Central Monday morning rail [00:19.59]Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders [00:24.90] [00:25.90]Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail [00:31.46] [00:32.03]All along the southbound odyssey [00:35.34]The train pulls out of Kankakee [00:38.53]And rolls along past houses farms and fields [00:45.15]Passing trains that have no name [00:47.90]And graveyards full of old black men [00:51.03]And graveyards full of rusted automobiles [00:57.15] [00:58.09]Good morning America how are you say [01:04.03]Don't you know me I'm your native son [01:09.46] [01:10.03]I'm the train they call [01:12.28]The City of New Orleans [01:16.46]And I'll be gone five hundred miles [01:19.71]When the day is done [01:22.03] [01:26.65]Dealin' cards with an old man at the club car [01:33.47]Many a point ain't no one keepin' score [01:38.15] [01:39.78]Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle [01:45.91]And feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor [01:51.84]And the sons of poor men porters [01:54.47]And the sons of engineers [01:58.15]Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel [02:05.16]Mothers with their babes asleep [02:08.03]Rockin' to that gentle beat [02:11.03]And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel [02:17.84]Good morning America how are you say [02:24.03]Don't you know me I'm your native son [02:29.47]I'm the train they call [02:32.03]The City of New Orleans [02:36.47]And I'll be gone five hundred miles [02:39.29]When the day is done [02:46.03] [03:08.84]Night time on the City of New Orleans [03:15.03]Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee [03:21.40]Half way home we'll be there by morning [03:27.53]Through the Mississippi darkness [03:29.16]Rolling down to the sea [03:33.97]And all the towns and people seem [03:36.78]To fade into a bad dream [03:40.17]And the steel rails still ain't heard the news [03:44.80] [03:46.74]The conductor sings his songs again [03:49.43]The passengers will please refrain [03:52.52]This train has got the disappearing railroad blues [03:58.52] [03:59.40]Good morning America how are you say [04:05.21]Don't you know me I'm your native son [04:10.83]I'm the train they call [04:13.53]The City of New Orleans [04:17.96]And I'll be gone five hundred miles [04:20.58]When the day is done