City of New Orleans - Live Full Band Version Bonus Track

I think Mr. Goodman summed it up best

We're goin' on his train, right now

Riding on the 'City of New Orleans'

Illinois Central, Monday morning train

15 cars and 15 restless riders

Three conductors and 34 sacks of mail

All along the southbound odyssey, as the train pulls out from Kankakee

Heading over highways, farms and fields

I'm passing trains that have no name, freight yards full of old black men

And the graves of rusted automobiles

Singing, "Good morning America, how are you?"

I 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 500 miles when the day is done"

Dealing club cards with the old man in the club car

Hey, penny a point, ain't no one keeping score

Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle

Hey, feel the wheels rumblin' through the floor

And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers

Ride their mother's magic carpet made of steel

Mothers with their babes at rest, holding to the very chest

And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel

Singing, "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 500 miles when the day is done

Come on, Doyle, take us to New Orleans

Nighttime on the 'City of New Orleans'

Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee

Halfway there, we'll be there by morning

Through the Mississippi darkness, rolling down to the sea

And the passengers and all their scream

Feeling through this bad, bad dream

'Cause it feels like they ain't heard the news

Conductor racks that same refrain, passengers will please refrain

'Cause this train's got the disappearing railroad blues

Singing, "Good morning America, how are you?

Oh, 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 500 miles when the day is done

I'm the train they call the 'City of New Orleans'

And I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Good evening, America

Thank you, Steve Goodman