City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie

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[ar:Arlo Guthrie]
[al:Live at Caffe Lena: Music from America's Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013]
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[00:00.00]City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
[00:06.69]Riding on the city of New Orleans
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[00:11.80]Illinois Central Monday morning rail
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[00:17.32]Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
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[00:22.36]Three conductors twenty-five sacks of mail
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[00:28.12]All along the southbound Odyssey
[00:31.12]The train pulls out of Kankakee
[00:34.07]And rolls along past houses farms and fields
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[00:39.64]Passing trains that have no name
[00:42.27]Freight yards full of old black men
[00:44.99]And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
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[00:50.96]Good morning America how are ya
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[00:56.32]Say don't you know me I'm your native son
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[01:01.32]I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans
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[01:07.80]I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
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[01:16.65]Dealin' cards to the old men in the club car
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[01:22.47]Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
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[01:28.34]Pass the paper baq that holds the bottle
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[01:33.90]You can feel the wheels rumblin' neath the floor
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[01:39.15]The sons of pullman porters and the sons of engineers
[01:44.44]Ride their fathers' magic carpets made of steel
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[01:50.63]Mothers with their babes asleep
[01:53.46]Are rockin' to the gentle beat
[01:56.08]And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
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[02:01.95]Good morning America how are ya
[02:05.63]
[02:07.22]Say don't you know me I'm your native son
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[02:12.27]I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans
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[02:18.64]I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
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[02:28.09]Night-time on the city of New Orleans
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[02:33.05]Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
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[02:39.21]Halfway home we'll be there by morning
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[02:44.30]Through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea
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[02:50.15]But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
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[02:55.71]The steel rails still ain't heard the news
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[03:01.10]The conductor sings his songs again
[03:04.20]Passengers will please refrain
[03:06.77]This train's got the disappearin' railroad blues
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[03:12.39]Good night America how are ya
[03:16.62]
[03:17.92]Say don't you know me I'm your native son
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[03:23.02]I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans
[03:28.19]
[03:29.38]I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
[03:33.83]
[03:35.61]Good night America how are ya
[03:38.94]
[03:40.75]Say don't you know me I'm your native son
[03:44.50]
[03:45.84]I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans
[03:50.94]
[03:52.13]I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done