[ti:City Of New Orleans] [ar:Willie Nelson] [al:Original Album Classics] [offset:0] [00:00.82]City Of New Orleans---Willie Nelson [00:08.49]Ridin' on the City of New Orleans [00:14.73]Illinois Central Monday morning rail [00:21.09]Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders [00:27.21]Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail [00:33.48]All along the southbound odyssey [00:36.92]the train pulls out of Kankakee [00:40.16]And rolls along past houses farms and fields [00:46.66]Passing trains that have no name [00:49.59]and graveyards full of old black men [00:52.71]And graveyards full of rusted automobiles [00:59.58]Good morning America how are you? Say, [01:05.94]don't you know me I'm your native son [01:11.12]I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans [01:17.99]And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done [01:28.10]Dealin' cards with an old man in the club car [01:34.96]Penny a point, ain't no one keepin' score [01:41.32]Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle [01:47.50]And feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor [01:53.43]And the sons of poor men porters and the sons of engineers [01:59.73]Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel [02:06.72]Mothers with their babes asleep rockin' to that gentle beat [02:12.65]And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel [02:18.32]Good morning America how are you? Say, don't you know me I'm your native son And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done [02:39.30] [03:10.52]Night time on the City of New Orleans [03:15.51]changing cars in Memphis Tennessee [03:23.10]Half way home we'll be there by morning [03:29.08]Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea [03:35.70]And all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream [03:41.87]And the steel rails still ain't heard the news [03:48.43]The conductor sings his songs again [03:51.24]the passengers will please refrain This train has got the disappearing railroad blues [04:01.18]Good morning America how are you? Say, don't you know me I'm your native son [04:12.59]I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done