The City of New Orleans

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| Riding on the | City of New Or | leans. | Illinois Central, |
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| Monday mor orning rail. | | |
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| Fifteen cars and fif | teen restless riders, | three con |
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| ductors and | twenty five sacks of mail. | All a | long a
southbound |
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| odyssey, the | train pulls out of Kan | kakee. It | rolls along past
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| houses, farms and | fields. | | Passing trains that have |
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| no name, frei | ght yards full of old | black men, and the |
graveyards of the |
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| rusted automobiles. | | (And I’m sing in’) |

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| Good morn | ing Am er i ca, how are | you? | Say’n, |
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| don’t you know me, | I’m your native | son? | I’m the | train they
call the |
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| City of New | Orleans. | I’ll be gone | five hundred miles | when
the day is |
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| done. | | |

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