City of New Orleans

Accordi City of New Orleans

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Riding on the City of New Orleans
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Illinois Central Monday morning rail
                 
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Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
         
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Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
     
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All along the southbound odyssey
    
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The train pulls out at Kankakee
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Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
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Passin' trains that have no name
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Freight yards full of old black men
        
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And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles

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Good morning America how are you?
     
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Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son
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I'm the train they call the City 
       
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of New Orleans 
        
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I'll be gone five hundred miles 
                
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when the day is done

        
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Dealin' card games 
         
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with the old men in the club car
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Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
               
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Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
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Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor
        
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And the sons of pullman porters
        
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And the sons of engineers
           
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Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
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Mothers with their babes asleep
    
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Are rockin' to the gentle beat
        
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And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel

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Good morning America how are you?
     
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Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son
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I'm the train they call the City 
       
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of New Orleans 
        
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I'll be gone five hundred miles 
                
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when the day is done

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Nighttime on the City of New Orleans
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Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
               
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Half way home, we'll be there by morning
            
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Through the Mississippi darkness
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Rolling down to the sea
    
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But all the towns and people seem
   
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To fade into a bad dream
        
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And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
       
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The conductor sings his songs again
    
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The passengers will please refrain
     
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This train got the disappearing railroad blues

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Good night America how are you?
     
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Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son
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I'm the train they call the City 
       
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of New Orleans 
        
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I'll be gone five hundred miles 
                
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when the day is done

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