City Of New Orleans-Willie Nelson

[00:00.57]Riding on the [00:01.38]City of New [00:04.38]OrleansIllinois [00:04.92]Central Monday morning rail [00:10.68]Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders [00:15.93]Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail [00:21.75]All along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out at [00:27.60]KankakeeAnd rolls along past houses, farms and fields [00:33.66]Passin' trains that have no names and freight yards full of old black men [00:39.27]And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles [00:42.15]Good morning [00:42.45]America how are you? [00:43.02]See, don't you know me [00:45.00]I'm your native son [00:45.45]I'm the train they call [00:45.90]The City of [00:46.14]New Orleans [00:46.47]And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done [00:47.55]Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car [00:51.03]Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score [00:51.96]Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle [00:52.89]Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor [00:53.73]And the sons of pullman porters and the sons of engineers [00:55.11]Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel [00:56.10]Mothers with their babes asleep are rockin' to the gentle beat [00:57.36]And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel [00:58.17]Good morning [00:58.44]America how are you? [00:58.89]See, don't you know me [00:59.25]I'm your native son [00:59.70]I'm the train they call [01:00.15]The City of [01:00.39]New Orleans [01:02.22]I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done [01:11.28]Nighttime on [01:12.18]The City of [01:13.05]New Orleans [01:16.74]Changing cars in [01:18.81]Memphis, Tennessee [01:22.98]Half way home, we'll be there by morning [01:28.38]Through the [01:28.53]Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea [01:34.23]But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream [01:40.08]And the steel rails still ain't heard the news [01:45.99]The conductor sings his song again, the passengers will please refrain [01:51.90]This train's got the disappearing railroad blues [01:59.25]Good morning [01:59.52]America how are you? [02:03.84]See, don't you know me [02:05.67]I'm your native son [02:09.42]I'm the train they call [02:11.13]The City of [02:11.76]New Orleans [02:15.03]I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done