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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 south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kankakee,
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Rolls along past houses farms and fields,
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Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men
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And the graveyards of rusted automobiles.
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Good morning, America, how are you?
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Say, 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.
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car,