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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] "The City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie Riding on the City of New Orleans, Illinois Central, monday morning rail, Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders, Three conductors, twenty-five sacks of mail. All along the southbound Odyssey The train pulls out at Kankakee And rolls along past houses, farms and fields, Passing trains that have no name And freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles. Good morning, America, how are you? Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car, Penny a point, ain't no one keepin' score, Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle, And feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor. And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel Mothers with their babes asleep Are rockin' to the gentle beat And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel. Good morning, America, how are you? Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. Night-time on the City of New Orleans Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee Halfway home, we'll be there by morning Through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea. But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream And the steel rail still ain't heard the news The conductor sings his songs again, The passengers will please refrain, This train's got the disappearin' railroad blues. Good night, America, how are you? Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans, I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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