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City Of New Orleans
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Hank Snow
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Riding on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central Monday morning rail
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Fisteen 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 the train pulls out of Kankakee
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And moves along past houses farms and fields
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Passing trains that have no name and freighyards full of old black men
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And the graveyards full of rusted automobiles
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Good morning America how are ya
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Say don't you know me I'm your native son
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I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans
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I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
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Dealing card games with an old man on the club car
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Many a point and no one keeping score
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Pass that 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 poor men porters 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 rocking 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...
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Night time on the City of New Orleans changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
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Half way home and we'll get 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 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 song again the passengers will please refrain
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This train's got the disappearing railroad blues
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Good morning America...
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