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Lyrics: Arlo Guthrie "City of New Orleans" *** Get Complimentary City of New Orleans Ringtone *** Riding on the City Of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three Conductors; twenty-five sacks of mail All along the southbound odyssey - the train pulls out of Kankakee And rolls along past houses, farms, and fields Passing trains that have no name, and freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobile (Chorus) Good morning, America, how are you? Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son I'm the train they call the City Of New Orleans I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done Dealing card games with the old man in the Club Car Penny a point - ain't no one keeping score As the paper bag that holds the bottle Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor And the sons of Pullman Porters, and the sons of Engineers Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel And, mothers with their babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel (Chorus) Good morning, America, how are you? Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son I'm the train they call the City Of New Orleans I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done Night time on the City Of New Orleans Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee Halfway home - we'll be there by morning Through the Mississippi darkness, rolling down to the sea But, all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream And the steel rail still ain't heard the news The conductor sings his songs again - the passengers will please refrain This train got the disappearing railroad blues (Chorus) Good night, America, how are you? Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son I'm the train they call the City Of New Orleans I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done |
Hobo's Lullaby:
Artist: Arlo Guthrie
Lyricist: Steve Goodman'
Product details:
Style: Contemporary Folk
Folk-Rock
Tracks:
1. Anytime
2. City of New Orleans
3. Lightning Bar Blues
4. Shackles and Chains
5. 1913 Massacre
6. Somebody Turned on the Light
7. Ukulele Lady
8. When the Ship Comes In
9. Mapleview (20% Rag)
10. Days Are Short
11. Hobo's Lullaby
Artist: Arlo Guthrie
Lyricist: Steve Goodman'
Product details:
Style: Contemporary Folk
Folk-Rock
Tracks:
1. Anytime
2. City of New Orleans
3. Lightning Bar Blues
4. Shackles and Chains
5. 1913 Massacre
6. Somebody Turned on the Light
7. Ukulele Lady
8. When the Ship Comes In
9. Mapleview (20% Rag)
10. Days Are Short
11. Hobo's Lullaby
A typical Arlo Guthrie mix of
contemporary folk songs and with a
little Bob Dylan and dad Woody
Guthrie added for good measure.
Arlo's cover of Dylan's "When the
Ship Comes In" is superb, as is his
slide guitar take on Hoyt Axton's
"Lightning Bar Blues." Also worth
noting are renditions of Woody's sad
ballad, "1913 Massacre,"... More
Axton's "Somebody Turned on the
Light," and Arlo's own "Days Are
Short."
And then there is his definitive cover
of "The City of New Orleans," Steve
Goodman's ode to the vanishing
railroads of middle America. "New
Orleans" was Arlo's only real hit
single, and its "Good morning,
America, how are ya?" chorus echoed
from AM radios throughout the land,
making the song a folk music
standard. ~ Jim Newsom, All Music
Guide
