City Of New Orleans Lyrics

Ridin' 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 of Kankakee
And rolls along past houses farms and fields
Pa*sing trains that have no name and frightyards full of old black men.
And graveyards full of rusted automobiles
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
And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Dealin' cards games with the old men in the club car
penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
Pa*s that paper bag that holds the bottle
And feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor
And the sons of pullmen porters and the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep rockin' to that gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Good morning America...
[ guitar ]
Night time on the City of New Orleans changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
Half way home we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea
And all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again the pa*sengers will please refrain
This train has got to disappear in railroad blues
Good morning America...

Willie Nelson - Essential 3.0 Willie Nelson

Aug 2009

1. Night Life
2. Hello Walls
3. Crazy
4. Funny How Time Slips Away
5. I Never Cared For You
6. The Party's Over
7. Good Times
8. Me And Paul
9. Shotgun Willie
10. Bloody Mary Morning
11. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
12. Good Hearted Woman
13. If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time
14. Uncloudy Day
15. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Remastered For Buddha - October 30, 2000)
16. Georgia On My Mind
17. Blue Skies
18. All Of Me
19. Heartbreak Hotel (With Leon Russell)
20. Help Me Make It Through The Night
21. Whiskey River (Live)
22. Stay A Little Longer (Live)
23. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
24. Faded Love
25. On The Road Again
26. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
27. Always On My Mind
28. Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
29. Pancho And Lefty
30. To All The Girls I've Loved Before
31. City Of New Orleans
32. Seven Spanish Angels (With Ray Charles)
33. Forgiving You Was Easy
34. Highwayman Johnny Cash
35. Living In The Promiseland
36. Nothing I Can Do About It Now
37. Graceland
38. Everywhere I Go (With Emmylou Harris)
39. Slow Dancing (U2 Featuring Willie Nelson - Mickey Rapael On Harmonica)
40. Mendocino County Line (With Lee Ann Womack)
41. One Time Too Many (With Steven Tyler And Aerosmith)(Previously Unreleased)
42. Remember Me
43. I Love You A Thousand Ways
44. Love Me Tender
45. Midnight Rider
46. Philadelphia Lawyer
47. Why Do I Have To Choose
48. Let It Be Me
49. Still Is Still Moving To Me