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Riding on the city of new orleans |
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Illinios central, monday morning rail |
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15 cars and 15 restless riders |
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3 conductors and 25 sacks of mail |
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All along a southbound odyssey |
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The train pulls out of kankakee |
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Rolls along past houses, farms and fields |
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Passing trains that have no name |
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Freight yards full of old black men |
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The graveyards of the rusted automobiles |
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Singing good morning america, how are you? |
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Saying, dont you know me Im your native son? |
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Im the train they call the city of new orleans |
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Ill be gone 500 miles when the day is done |
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Dealing cards with the old men in the club car |
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Penny a point, aint no one keeping score |
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Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle |
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Feel the wheels a rumbling 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 fathers magic carpet made of steel |
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And mothers with their babes asleep |
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Rockin to the gentle beat |
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And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel |
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Singing good morning america, how are you? |
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Saying dont you know me, Im your native son? |
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Im the train they call the city of new orleans |
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Ill be gone 500 miles 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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Halfway home and well be there by morning |
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Through the mississippi darkness 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 rails still aint heard the news |
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The conductor sings his song 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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Singing good morning america, how are you? |
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Saying dont you know me, Im your native son? |
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Im the train they call the city of new orleans |
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Ill be gone 500 miles when the day is done |
