[00:05.47]Riding on the city of new orleans
[00:11.72]Illinios central, monday morning rail
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[00:15.41]15 cars and 15 restless riders
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[00:20.78]3 conductors and 25 sacks of mail
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[00:25.66]All along a southbound odyssey
[00:28.03]The train pulls out of kankakee
[00:30.16]Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
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[00:36.22]Passing trains that have no name
[00:38.65]Freight yards full of old black men
[00:40.91]The graveyards of the rusted automobiles
[00:43.53]Singing good morning america, how are you?
[00:49.66]
[00:51.03]Saying, dont you know me Im your native son?
[00:55.03]
[00:55.91]Im the train they call the city of new orleans
[01:00.10]
[01:01.03]Ill be gone 500 miles when the day is done
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[01:06.40]Dealing cards with the old men in the club car
[01:10.28]
[01:11.85]Penny a point, aint no one keeping score
[01:15.16]
[01:16.22]Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
[01:20.53]
[01:21.47]Feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor
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[01:26.78]And the sons of pullman porters
[01:29.24]And the sons of engineers
[01:31.67]Ride their fathers magic carpet made of steel
[01:35.67]And mothers with their babes asleep
[01:39.65]Rockin to the gentle beat
[01:42.15]And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
[01:45.10]
[01:46.96]Singing good morning america, how are you?
[01:50.66]
[01:51.33]Saying dont you know me, Im your native son?
[01:55.21]
[01:56.95]Im the train they call the city of new orleans
[02:00.85]
[02:02.41]Ill be gone 500 miles when the day is done
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[02:07.93]Nighttime on the city of new orleans
[02:13.50]Changing cars in memphis, tennessee
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[02:18.32]Halfway home and well be there by morning
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[02:23.27]Through the mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea
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[02:27.92]But all the towns and people seem
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[02:43.82]To fade into a bad dream
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[02:55.06]And the steel rails still aint heard the news
[02:58.87]The conductor sings his song again
[03:04.12]The passengers will please refrain
[03:05.66]This train has got the disappearing railroad blues
[03:06.98]Singing good morning america, how are you?
[03:07.98]Saying dont you know me, Im your native son?
[03:09.29]Im the train they call the city of new orleans
[03:10.73]Ill be gone 500 miles when the day is done