City of New Orleans - Live Full Band Version Bonus Track

I think Mr. Goodman summed it up best
 We're goin' on his train, right now
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 Riding on the 'City of New Orleans'
 Illinois Central, Monday morning train
 15 cars and 15 restless riders
 Three conductors and 34 sacks of mail
 All along the southbound odyssey, as the train pulls out from Kankakee
 Heading over highways, farms and fields
 I'm passing trains that have no name, freight yards full of old black men
 And the graves of rusted automobiles
 Singing, "Good morning America, how are you?"
 I say, don't you know me? I'm your native son
 I'm the train they call the 'City of New Orleans'
 And I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done"
 Dealing club cards with the old man in the club car
 Hey, penny a point, ain't no one keeping score
 Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle
 Hey, feel the wheels rumblin' through the floor
 And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
 Ride their mother's magic carpet made of steel
 Mothers with their babes at rest, holding to the very chest
 And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
 Singing, "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'
 And I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done
 Come on, Doyle, take us to New Orleans
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 Nighttime on the 'City of New Orleans'
 Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
 Halfway there, we'll be there by morning
 Through the Mississippi darkness, rolling down to the sea
 And the passengers and all their scream
 Feeling through this bad, bad dream
 'Cause it feels like they ain't heard the news
 Conductor racks that same refrain, passengers will please refrain
 'Cause this train's got the disappearing railroad blues
 Singing, "Good morning America, how are you?
 Oh, don't you know me? I'm your native son
 I'm the train they call the 'City of New Orleans'
 And I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done
 I'm the train they call the 'City of New Orleans'
 And I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done
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 Good evening, America
 Thank you, Steve Goodman