The Highwaymen Live Johnny Cash Willie Nelson Way Lyrics

City of New Orleans
By: Clark Kent

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Intro:
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Verse 1

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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 conducters and twenty-five sacks of mail

Pre chorus 1:

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All along the south bound oddessy
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The train pulls out at Kankenney
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And rolls along pass houses, farms, and fields

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Passing trains that have no name
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And train yards full of old black men
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And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles

Chorus:

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Good mornin' America how are ya
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Say don't you know me? I'm your native son
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I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans
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And I'll be gone five hundred miles before the day is done

Verse 2:

Playin' cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
Pass the paper bag that hold the bottle
And feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor

Pre-chorus 2:

And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride thier fathers magic carpets made of steel

Mothers with thier babes asleep
Rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rythm of the wheels is all they hear

Chorus:

Verse 3:

Night time on The City of New Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis Tennesse
Halfway home we'll be there be mornin'
Through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea

Pre-chorus 3:

But all the towns and peole seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steal rails still ain't heard the news

The conducter sings his song again
Passengers will please refrain
This train has got the dissapperin' railroad blues

Chorus:

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