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Album: Miscellaneous (1968)
Artists: Cash Johnny

  1. 25 Minutes To Go
  2. A Boy Named Sue
  3. A Thing Called Love
  4. Ain't No Good Chain Gang
  5. ANY OLD WIND THAT BLOWS
  6. BAD NEWS
  7. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
  8. Ballad Of Ira Hayes
  9. Big River
  10. BIRD ON A WIRE
  11. BORN TO LOSE
  12. BURY ME NOT
  13. CHATTANOGA CITY LIMIT SIGN
  14. City Of New Orleans
  15. Come In Stranger
  16. COMMITTED TO PARKVIEW
  17. Country Boy
  18. Cowboy's Prayer
  19. Cry, Cry, Cry
  20. Daddy Sang Bass
  21. DEATH AND HELL
  22. Death Of Manolete *
  23. DELIA'S GONE
  24. Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog
  25. Don't Take Your Guns To Town
  26. DOWN THERE BY THE TRAIN
  27. DRIVE ON
  28. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
  29. Five Feet High And Rising
  30. FLESH AND BLOOD
  31. Folsom Prison Blues
  32. Frankie And Johnny
  33. Get Rhythm
  34. Girl In Saskatoon
  35. Give My Love To Rose
  36. God Ain't No Stained Glass Window
  37. GOODBYE, LITTLE DARLING, GOODBYE
  38. GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK
  39. Green, Green Grass Of Home
  40. Guess Things Happen That Way
  41. Heroes
  42. Hey Porter
  43. Hey, Porter


Cash Johnny
Miscellaneous
City Of New Orleans
Written by: Steve Goodman

Ridin' on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail
15 cars & 15 restless riders
Three conductors, 25 sacks of mail

All along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms & fields
Passin' graves that have no name, freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of rusted automobiles

Chorus:
Good mornin' 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 500 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
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
And feel the wheels grumblin' neath the floor

And the sons of Pullman porters & the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep, rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel

Repeat Chorus

Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home, we'll be there by mornin'
Thru the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea

But all the towns & people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his song again
"The passengers will please refrain:
This train has got the disappearin' railroad blues

Repeat Chorus
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