歌曲名 City of New Orleans

歌手名 Steve Goodman

作词：Steve Goodman

作曲：Steve Goodman

Ridin' on the city of new orleans

Illinois central monday mornin' rail

Illionois fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders

Three conductors twenty-five sacks of mail

There are out on the southbound odyssey

The train pulls out of kakakee

And it rolls along past houses

Farms and fields

Passin' towns that have no name

Freight yards full of old black men

And the graveyards of rusted automobiles

Say good morning america how are you

Say don't you know me

I'm your native son

Yes I'm the train they call

The city of new orleans

I'll be gone five hundred miles

When the day is done

And I was dealin' cards with

The old men in the club car

It's penny a point ain't nobody keepin' score

Won't you pass the paper bag that holds the bottle

You can feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor

And the sons of pullman porters

And the sons of engineers

Ride their daddy's magic carpet make of steel

Mothers with their babes asleep

Are rockin' to the gentle beat

And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel

Just saying 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

Nighttime on the city of new orleans

Changin' cars in memphis tennessee

Halfway home we'll be there by mornin'

Thru the mississippi darkness

Rollin' 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 that song again

The passengers will please refrain

This train's got the disappearin' railroad blues

Just saying 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

Just saying 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 long long time with that