This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the Poems, Prayers and Promises album, is also available on The Country Roads Collection album and has also been rerecorded on All Aboard! album.





Riding on the City of New Orleans

Illinios Central, Monday morning rail

15 cars and 15 restless riders

3 conductors and 25 sacks of mail

All along a southbound odyssey

The train pulls out of Kankakee

Rolls along past houses, farms and fields

Passing trains that have no name

Freight yards full of old black men

The graveyards of the rusted automobiles



Singing good morning America, how are you?

Saying, don't you know me I