[ti:City Of New Orleans] [ar:John Denver] [al:The Complete Collection CD 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:05.46]Riding on the city of new orleans [00:11.72]Illinios central monday morning rail [00:14.84] [00:15.40]15 cars and 15 restless riders [00:19.34] [00:20.78]3 conductors and 25 sacks of mail [00:24.09] [00:25.65]All along a southbound odyssey [00:28.02]The train pulls out of kankakee [00:30.15]Rolls along past houses farms and fields [00:34.84] [00:36.21]Passing trains that have no name [00:38.65]Freight yards full of old black men [00:40.90]The graveyards of the rusted automobiles [00:43.53]Singing good morning america how are you [00:49.65] [00:51.03]Saying dont you know me Im your native son [00:55.03] [00:55.90]Im the train they call the city of new orleans [01:00.09] [01:01.03]Ill be gone 500 miles when the day is done [01:05.34] [01:06.40]Dealing cards with the old men in the club car [01:10.28] [01:11.84]Penny a point aint no one keeping score [01:15.15] [01:16.21]Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle [01:20.53] [01:21.46]Feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor [01:25.53] [01:26.78]And the sons of pullman porters [01:29.23]And the sons of engineers [01:31.67]Ride their fathers magic carpet made of steel [01:35.67]And mothers with their babes asleep [01:39.65]Rockin to the gentle beat [01:42.15]And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel [01:45.09] [01:46.96]Singing good morning america how are you [01:50.66] [01:51.33]Saying dont you know me Im your native son [01:55.20] [01:56.95]Im the train they call the city of new orleans [02:00.85] [02:02.41]Ill be gone 500 miles when the day is done [02:06.42] [02:07.93]Nighttime on the city of new orleans [02:13.50]Changing cars in memphis tennessee [02:17.75] [02:18.31]Halfway home and well be there by morning [02:21.95] [02:23.26]Through the mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea [02:26.98] [02:27.92]But all the towns and people seem [02:33.44] [02:43.81]To fade into a bad dream [02:47.41] [02:55.06]And the steel rails still aint heard the news [02:58.87]The conductor sings his song again [03:04.11]The passengers will please refrain [03:05.66]This train has got the disappearing railroad blues [03:06.97]Singing good morning america how are you [03:07.97]Saying dont you know me Im your native son [03:09.28]Im the train they call the city of new orleans [03:10.72]Ill be gone 500 miles when the day is done