Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans (Live) Lyrics

Lyrics City of New Orleans (Live) - Arlo Guthrie



The City of New Orleans
By Steve Goodman
Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.
Good morning America how are you?
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
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.
Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.
Good night, America, how are you?
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.



Writer(s): Goodman Steve


Arlo Guthrie - Here Come the Kids
Album Here Come the Kids
date of release
10-03-2015

1 Oklahoma Hills Intro - Live
2 Oklahoma Hills (Live)
3 Pretty Boy Floyd Intro - Live
4 Pretty Boy Floyd - Live
5 St. James Infirmary Intro - Live
6 St. James Infirmary (Live)
7 Haleiwa Farewell Intro - Live
8 Haleiwa Farewell - Live
9 Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Intro - Live
10 Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) - Live
11 1913 Massacre Intro - Live
12 1913 Massacre - Live
13 Mother's Voice (I Hear You Sing Again) Intro (Live)
14 Mother's Voice (I Hear You Sing Again) (Live)
15 Do Re Mi Intro (Live)
16 Do Re Mi (Live)
17 Thundering Hoofbeats of Creativity - Live
18 This Song Is for That Guy - Live
19 Motorcycle Song - Live
20 Mom's Been Arrested - Live
21 Coming into Los Angeles (Live)
22 The King of the Twelve-String Guitar (Live)
23 Alabama Bound (Live)
24 Music for All Occasions - Live
25 Mooses Come Walking - Live
26 Old Shep Intro (Live)
27 Me and My Goose - Live
28 Piano Lessons (Live)
29 One Night in New Orleans (Live)
30 St. Louis Tickle - Live
31 City of New Orleans (Live)
32 1965 with Ramblin' Jack (Live)
33 Highway in the Wind (Live)
34 This Land Is Your Land (Live)
35 You Know the Rest (Live)
36 A Poster in Portland (Live)
37 Tuning at Carnegie with Pete (Live)
38 The Dustbowl Balladeer (Live)
39 Three Month Evaluation (Live)
40 My Peace Intro (Live)
41 My Peace - Live




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