Ridin' on the 'City of New Orleans'Illinois Central, Monday morning rail,Fifteen cars and fifteen restless ridersThree conductors and twenty-five sacks of mailOn a long southbound, hard to see (?) the train pull down at KentuckyIt rolls along past houses farms and fieldsPassing trains that have no names andFreight yards full them old black bins (?)And the graveyards of rusted automobilesGood morning America, how are you?Say, don't you know me, I'm your native sonI'm the train they call the 'City of New Orleans'And I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is doneDealing cards with the old man in the club car(?), ain't no one keepin' it slowPass the paper bag that holds the bottleFeel the wheels rumble beneath the floor(?)Ride your father's magic carpet made of steelMothers with their babies asleep, rockin' to the gentle beatAnd the rhythm of the rails is all they feelGood morning America, how are you?Say, don't you know me, I'm your native sonI'm the train they call the 'City of New Orleans'And I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is doneNighttime on the 'City of New Orleans"Changing cars in Memphis, TennesseeHalfway home, we'll be there by morningThru the Mississippi darkness, rollin' down to the seaBut all the towns that people seem to fade into a bad dreamAnd the steel rails still ain't hurt to doThe conductor sings his songs againThe passengers will (?)The train has got the dissappearing railroad bloomGood morning America, how are you?Say, don't you know me, I'm your native sonI'm the train they call the 'City of New Orleans'I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done
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Willie Hugh Nelson (Abbott, Texas, 29 de abril de 1933) es un cantante, compositor y guitarrista estadounidense de country. El éxito en la crítica de sus álbumes Shotgun Willie (1973), Red Headed Stranger (1975) y Stardust (1978) convirtieron a Nelson en uno…
