Biography:
Steve Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. The writer of "City of New Orleans", made popular by Arlo Guthrie, Goodman won two Grammy Awards.
The Chicago-born singer-songwriter, was discovered by Kris Kristofferson. He collaborated with close friend John Prine throughout his career. His superb guitar ability (honed at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music) and creative songwriting ability led him to success in the 1970s folk scene.
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Other songs:
- City Of New Orleans
- It's Midnight And I'm Not Famous Yet
- Men Who Love Women Who Love Men
- A Dying Cub Fans Last Request
- Between The Lines
- Door Number Three
- Eight Ball Blues
- Go Cubs Go
- I Cant Sleep
- Jazzman
- Lincoln Park Pirates
- Looking For Trouble
- My Old Man
- The Dutchman
- The One That Got Away
- The Twentieth Century
- Turnpike Tom
- Video Tape
- Wheres The Party
- Would You Like To Learn To Dance
- Yellow Coat
- You Never Even Call Me
- Youre The Girl I Love
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Riding on the City of New Orleans
Em C G
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
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Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Em D G
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
Em
All along the south bound odyssey
Bm
The train pulls out of Kenkakee
D A
Rolls along past houses farms and fields
Em
Passing trains that have no name
Bm
Freight yards of old black men
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And graveyards of rusted automobiles
CHORUS
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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
Penny a point ain't noone keeping score
Pass the paper bag but hold the bottle
Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
CHORUS:
Nightime 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
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a dark dream
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again
the passagers will please refrain
This train got the disappearing railroad blues
CHORUS:
Steve Ouimette
Steve Perry
Steve Stevens
Steve Waring
Steven And Cocon (...)
Stick Figure
Sticky Fingers
Stiff Little Fin (...)
Stina Nordenstam
Sting