所属专辑:Time in a Bottle: 50 Hit Songs of the 60’s and 70’s
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The City of New Orleans - Studio Group[00:00:00]
Riding on the city of New Orleans[00:00:08]
Illinois Central Monday morning rail[00:00:14]
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders[00:00:21]
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail[00:00:27]
All along the southbound odyssey[00:00:33]
The train pulled out at Kankakee[00:00:37]
And rolls along past houses farms and fields[00:00:39]
Passin' trains that have no names[00:00:46]
And freight yards full of old black men[00:00:50]
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles[00:00:52]
Good morning America[00:00:59]
How are you[00:01:02]
Say don't you know me[00:01:05]
I'm your native son[00:01:07]
I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans[00:01:11]
And I'll be gone five hundred miles[00:01:18]
When the day is done[00:01:20]
Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car[00:01:28]
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score[00:01:34]
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle[00:01:41]
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor[00:01:47]
And the sons of Pullman Porters[00:01:53]
And the sons of engineers[00:01:56]
Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel[00:02:00]
Mothers with their babes asleep[00:02:07]
Are rockin' to the gentle beat[00:02:10]
And the rhythm of the rail is all they feel[00:02:13]
Good morning America[00:02:20]
How are you[00:02:22]
Say don't you know me[00:02:26]
I'm your native son[00:02:28]
I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans[00:02:31]
I'll be gone five hundred miles[00:02:38]
When the day is done[00:02:41]
Nighttime on the city of New Orleans[00:02:49]
Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee[00:02:55]
Half way home we'll be there by morning[00:03:02]
Through the Mississippi darkness[00:03:08]
Rolling down to the sea[00:03:10]
But all the towns and people seem[00:03:14]
To fade into a bad dream[00:03:18]
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news[00:03:21]
The conductor sings his songs again[00:03:27]
The passengers will please refrain[00:03:31]
This train has got the disappearing railroad blues[00:03:34]
Good night America[00:03:41]
How are you[00:03:43]
Say don't you know me[00:03:47]
I'm your native son[00:03:49]
I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans[00:03:52]
I'll be gone five hundred miles[00:03:59]
When the day is done[00:04:02]