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Ridin' on the City of New Orleans |
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I llinois 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 of Kankakee |
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And rolls along past houses farms and fields |
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Passing trains that have no name |
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And graveyards full of old black men |
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And graveyards full of rusted automobiles |
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Good morning America how are you say |
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Don't you know me I'm your native son |
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I'm the train they call |
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The City of New Orleans |
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And I'll be gone five hundred miles |
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When the day is done |
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Dealin' cards with an old man at the club car |
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Many a point ain't no one keepin' score |
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Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle |
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And feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor |
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And the sons of poor men porters |
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And the sons of engineers |
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Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel |
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Mothers with their babes asleep |
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Rockin' to that 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 say |
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Don't you know me I'm your native son |
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I'm the train they call |
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The City of New Orleans |
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And I'll be gone five hundred miles |
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When the day is done |
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Night time 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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And all the towns and people seem |
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To fade into a bad dream |
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And the steel rails 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 has got the disappearing railroad blues |
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Good morning America how are you say |
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Don't you know me I'm your native son |
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I'm the train they call |
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The City of New Orleans |
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And I'll be gone five hundred miles |
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When the day is done |
