[ti:City Of New Orleans]
[ar:Willie Nelson]
[al:One Hell Of A Ride]
[00:00.350]City Of New Orleans  - Willie Nelson
[00:06.660]Ridin' on the City of New Orleans
[00:11.910]
[00:12.910]I llinois Central Monday morning rail
[00:19.290]Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
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[00:25.600]Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
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[00:31.730]All along the southbound odyssey
[00:35.040]The train pulls out of Kankakee
[00:38.230]And rolls along past houses farms and fields
[00:44.850]Passing trains that have no name
[00:47.600]And graveyards full of old black men
[00:50.730]And graveyards full of rusted automobiles
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[00:57.790]Good morning America how are you say
[01:03.730]Don't you know me I'm your native son
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[01:09.730]I'm the train they call
[01:11.980]The City of New Orleans
[01:16.160]And I'll be gone five hundred miles
[01:19.410]When the day is done
[01:21.730]
[01:26.350]Dealin' cards with an old man at the club car
[01:33.170]Many a point ain't no one keepin' score
[01:37.850]
[01:39.480]Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle
[01:45.610]And feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor
[01:51.540]And the sons of poor men porters
[01:54.170]And the sons of engineers
[01:57.850]Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel
[02:04.860]Mothers with their babes asleep
[02:07.730]Rockin' to that gentle beat
[02:10.730]And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
[02:17.540]Good morning America how are you say
[02:23.730]Don't you know me I'm your native son
[02:29.170]I'm the train they call
[02:31.730]The City of New Orleans
[02:36.170]And I'll be gone five hundred miles
[02:38.990]When the day is done
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[03:08.540]Night time on the City of New Orleans
[03:14.730]Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
[03:21.100]Half way home we'll be there by morning
[03:27.230]Through the Mississippi darkness
[03:28.860]Rolling down to the sea
[03:33.670]And all the towns and people seem
[03:36.480]To fade into a bad dream
[03:39.870]And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
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[03:46.440]The conductor sings his songs again
[03:49.130]The passengers will please refrain
[03:52.220]This train has got the disappearing railroad blues
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[03:59.100]Good morning America how are you say
[04:04.910]Don't you know me I'm your native son
[04:10.530]I'm the train they call
[04:13.230]The City of New Orleans
[04:17.660]And I'll be gone five hundred miles
[04:20.280]When the day is done