Jerry Reed - City Of New Orleans lyrics
[Jerry Reed - City Of New Orleans lyrics]
Well I'm ridin’ on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks
Of mail
All along the southbound odyssey the train
Rolls out of Kankakee
Rolls along past houses farms and fields
Passin' cars that have no names
Switchyards full of old black men
And graveyards full of rusty old automobiles
Well 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
I'll be gone five hundred miles
When the day is done
Well good morning America how are you
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks
Of mail
All along the southbound odyssey the train
Rolls out of Kankakee
Rolls along past houses farms and fields
Passin' cars that have no names
Switchyards full of old black men
And graveyards full of rusty old automobiles
Well 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
I'll be gone five hundred miles
When the day is done
Well good morning America how are you