The City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie
The City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie

The City of New Orleans

Arlo Guthrie * Track #2 On Hobo’s Lullaby

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The City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie

Performed by
Arlo Guthrie
Produced by
John Pilla & Lenny Waronker
Writed by
Steve Goodman
About

Steve Goodman’s 1971 song, covered by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Judy Collins, Chet Atkins, John Denver and others.
The song describe a trip that Steve Goodman and his wife took with the Illinois Central train from Chicago to New Orleans.

Arlo Guthrie had recorded it and the song became one of hi...

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The City of New Orleans Lyrics

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?
So 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' cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
Won't you 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 fathers' magic carpets made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel

Good morning America how are you?
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
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 passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues

Good night, America, how are you?
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

The City of New Orleans Q&A

Who wrote The City of New Orleans's ?

The City of New Orleans was written by Steve Goodman.

Who produced The City of New Orleans's ?

The City of New Orleans was produced by John Pilla & Lenny Waronker.

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