Botany
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Wed Aug-31-05 05:12 AM
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The City of New Orleans by Steve Goodman
Riding on the City of New Orleans, Illinois Central Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders, Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail. All along the southbound odyssey The train pulls out at Kankakee Rolls along past houses, farms and fields. Passin' trains that have no names, Freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.
CHORUS: Good morning 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 five hundred miles when the day is done.
Dealin' card games 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 Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor. And the sons of pullman porters And the sons of engineers Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel. Mothers with their babes asleep, Are rockin' to the gentle beat And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.
CHORUS
Nighttime on The City of New Orleans, Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee. Half way home, we'll be there by morning Through the Mississippi darkness Rolling down to the sea. And all the towns and people seem To fade into a bad dream And the steel rails still ain't heard the news. The conductor sings his song again, The passengers will please refrain This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.
Good night, 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 five hundred miles when the day is done.
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Wed Aug-31-05 05:15 AM
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1. I don't cry easily, but that brought a tear to my eye. nt |
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Wed Aug-31-05 05:17 AM
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2. They played that song at the start of Hot L Baltimore by Lanford Wilson. |
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I ushered it for a year and heard it every night. And it's been in my mind for two days.
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Wed Aug-31-05 05:21 AM
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a good guy who left us too soon....
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Wed Aug-31-05 05:22 AM
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4. Replaying in my head... |
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over and over again. :cry:
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Wed Aug-31-05 05:51 AM
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5. I never got to go there |
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Edited on Wed Aug-31-05 05:53 AM by staticstopper
I always assumed I'd get to see it one day, now I may never.
Why?
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Wed Aug-31-05 06:14 AM
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6. City of New Orleans Passenger Train Also In Peril |
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Amtrak's City of New Orleans passenger train is also in peril. Ideologues in Gee Dubya Boojum's administration want to do away with passenger rail service because it's "socialist."
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Wed Aug-31-05 06:23 AM
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7. Road "The City" last year |
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not all the way but part. :)
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