N-City of New Orleans
C-Steve Goodman
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L-       Ri- ding on the Ci-ty  of   New Or- leans,                   Illi- nois Cen-tral Mon-day mor- ning rail,
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L-     Fif-teen cars  and fif-teen rest-less ri-ders,               Three con-duc-tors  twen-ty five sacks of mail.                 All a-
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L-  long the south-bound Od-ys-sey the train pulls out of Kan-ka-kee  and rolls a-long the hou-ses farms and fields;
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L-   Pas-sing towns that had no names and freight yards full of old black men and the grave-yards of the rus-ted au-to-mo-biles.
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L-   Good mor- nong  A- me-   ri-  ca  how are you,               Say   don't you know me, I'm your na-tive son,             I'm    the
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L-      train they call the Ci-ty of New Or-leans,                I'll be gone five hun-dred miles when the day is done.