CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
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Ridin' on the City of New Orleans
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Illinois Central Monday mornin' rail
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Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
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Three conductors and twenty-four sacks of mail
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All along the southbound odyssey the train rolls out of Kankakee
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Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
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Passin' trains that have no name and freight yards full of old black men
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And the graveyards of rusted automobiles A-3-------|
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Good mornin' 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 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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Dealin' cards with the old men on the club car
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Penny a point ain’t no one keepin' score
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Hey now pass that paper bag that holds the bottle
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Feel the wheels a-rumblin' 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 rockin' to the gentle beat
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And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel A-3-------|
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Good mornin' 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 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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Night time on the City of New Orleans
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Changin' cars in Memphis, Tennessee
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Halfway home and we'll be there by mornin'
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Thru the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea
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And all the towns and people seem 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 song again the passengers will please refrain
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This train has got the disappearin' railroad blues
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Good mornin' 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 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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F C >>>RIFF TO Am A—3-2-0
Good mornin' America, how are you?
Am F C G
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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I'll be gone five-hundred miles when the day is done
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