Steve Goodman - City of New Orleans (Live 1972) | Текст песни

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Nice early footage of Steve from OGWT 1972
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0JgqoF2W4

Ridin' on The City of New Orleans
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
There are fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail

They're all out on this Southbound odyssey
And the train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolls past the houses, farms and fields
Passin' towns that have no names
And freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of rusted automobiles

Singin': Good morning America, how are ya
Don't ya know me, I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone 500 miles when day is done

And I was dealing cards with the old men in the club car
And it's penny a point, there ain't no one keepin' score
Won't ya past that paper bag that holds that tequila
You can feel the wheels grumblin' beneath the floor

The sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers all ride their daddies' magic carpets that's made of steam
And mothers with the babes asleep
Go rockin' to the gentle beat
The rhythm of the rails is all they dream

Singin' Good morning America, how are ya
Don't ya know me I'm your native son
And I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone 500 miles when day is done

It's nighttime on the City of New Orleans
And we changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
All the halfway home we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling to the sea
All the towns and people
Seem to fade into a bad dream
And the old steel rail, it ain't heard the news
The conductor sings that song again
It's: \"Passengers 'll please refrain\"
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues

Goodnight America, how are ya
And Don't ya know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Goodnight America, how are ya
Don't ya know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
Gone a long, long time when day is do-o-one.

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