Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song City of New Orleans, artist - Me First And The Gimme Gimmes. Album song Rake It In: The Greatestest Hits, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 06.04.2017
Record label: Fat Wreck Chords
Song language: English
City of New Orleans |
Riding on the City of New Orleans |
Illinois Central Monday morning rail |
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders |
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail |
All along the southbound odyssey |
The train pulls out at Kankakee |
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields |
Passin' trains that have no names |
Freight yards full of old black men |
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles |
Good morning America how are you? |
I said, 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 |
Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car |
Penny a point ain’t no one keepin' score |
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle |
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor |
And the sons of pullman porters and the sons of engineers |
Ride their father’s magic carpets made of steel |
Mothers with their babes asleep are rockin' to the gentle beat |
And the rhythm of the rails is all that they feel |
Good morning America how are you? |
I said, 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 |
Good morning America how are you? |
I said, 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 |
Good night, America, how are you? |
I said, 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 |