City of New Orleans
First recording and first release by Steve Goodman (March 23, 1970 / 1970)
- Written by
- Steve Goodman
- Language
- English
- ISWC
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T-070.028.026-7 ASCAP, GEMA, ISWC, JASRAC
- Comments
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First three verses -
Riding 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
There 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?"
Saying "don't ya know me? I'm your native son"
Yes, I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
And I'll be gone 500 miles when day is done - Published by
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SONY-ATV TUNES LLC
GEMA
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