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Riding on the City of New Orleans,
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Illinois Central Monday morning rail
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Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
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Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
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All along the southbound odyssey
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The train pulls out at Kankakee
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Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
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Passin' trains that have no names,
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Freight yards full of old black men
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And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

CHORUS:

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Singing: Good morning America how are you?
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Don't you know me I'm your native son,
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    I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
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I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.