Wednesday

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Arlo Guthrie was the performer on the famous version, I think.

But it was written by someone else. The lyrics are quite amazing.....

you know how I feel about you, but dylan wrote this song I promise

OK do I have the wrong "City of New Orleans" in mind ???? I'm a spazz sometimes so maybe I am thinking of completely the wrong song.

This is the one I am talking about:

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.

©1970, 1971 EMI U Catalogue, Inc and Turnpike Tom Music (ASCAP)

Also Wikipedia has it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song)

i always liked that song

[mybackpages 0]

Arlo Guthrie was the performer on the famous version, I think.

But it was written by someone else. The lyrics are quite amazing.....

you know how I feel about you, but dylan wrote this song I promise

OK do I have the wrong "City of New Orleans" in mind ???? I'm a spazz sometimes so maybe I am thinking of completely the wrong song.

This is the one I am talking about:

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.

©1970, 1971 EMI U Catalogue, Inc and Turnpike Tom Music (ASCAP)

Also Wikipedia has it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song)

Nope you are right and i am right. We are just talking about two diffferent songs

cbd2cai mentioned City of New Orleans which is what you were thinking of and I was commenting that My Back Pages (the song not me) was a song written by Bob Dyan.

whew....major crisis resolved this sloooooow and boring Wednesday night

[amal 4]

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Nope you are right and i am right. We are just talking about two diffferent songs

cbd2cai mentioned City of New Orleans which is what you were thinking of and I was commenting that My Back Pages (the song not me) was a song written by Bob Dyan.

whew....major crisis resolved this sloooooow and boring Wednesday night

Dangggg we coulda threw down and drove this puppy up to 17 20 25 pages or more.... attracted all kinds of rubberneckers from 'cross town.... aww shux...

[cbd2cai 0]

Nope you are right and i am right. We are just talking about two diffferent songs

cbd2cai mentioned City of New Orleans which is what you were thinking of and I was commenting that My Back Pages (the song not me) was a song written by Bob Dyan.

whew....major crisis resolved this sloooooow and boring Wednesday night

Dangggg we coulda threw down and drove this puppy up to 17 20 25 pages or more.... attracted all kinds of rubberneckers from 'cross town.... aww shux...

OK, sorry, my fault for inadvertently linking Bob Dylan and The City of New Orleans . . . . I was singing the Arlo version in my head . . . but thinking about lonesome old Bob Dylan riding a train called The City of New Orleans . . . don't ask me why that was what popped out of my head. Sorry for having weird random thoughts . . . it won't happen again on the other hand . . . I am sure it will . . . I have a peculiar knack for connecting the strangest things!! Just how my brain is wired . . .

On the other hand, maybe I should have continued watching "The Biggest Loser" instead of wandering upstairs to check VJ . . . I don't want to be the instigator of a 25 page train-wreck . . . even if it is The City of New Orleans!!

Edited December 7, 2006 by cbd2cai

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Nope you are right and i am right. We are just talking about two diffferent songs

cbd2cai mentioned City of New Orleans which is what you were thinking of and I was commenting that My Back Pages (the song not me) was a song written by Bob Dyan.

whew....major crisis resolved this sloooooow and boring Wednesday night

Dangggg we coulda threw down and drove this puppy up to 17 20 25 pages or more.... attracted all kinds of rubberneckers from 'cross town.... aww shux...

OK, sorry, my fault for inadvertently linking Bob Dylan and The City of New Orleans . . . . I was singing the Arlo version in my head . . . but thinking about lonesome old Bob Dylan riding a train called The City of New Orleans . . . don't ask me why that was what popped out of my head. Sorry for having weird random thoughts . . . it won't happen again on the other hand . . . I am sure it will . . . I have a peculiar knack for connecting the strangest things!! Just how my brain is wired . . .

On the other hand, maybe I should have continued watching "The Biggest Loser" instead of wandering upstairs to check VJ . . . I don't want to be the instigator of a 25 page train-wreck . . . even if it is The City of New Orleans!!

Hahahahhahaaaaa now I have this image in my mind of Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie, both with their acoustic guitars and harmonicas, trying to out-cuss each other in the most unique and weirdest nasal voices, running on top of the rail cars and wrestling for control of the City of New Orleans.... and the train finally goes careening off the rails and now there's blood on the tracks somewhere near Alice's Restaurant

[noura 0]

Hahahahhahaaaaa now I have this image in my mind of Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie, both with their acoustic guitars and harmonicas, trying to out-cuss each other in the most unique and weirdest nasal voices, running on top of the rail cars and wrestling for control of the City of New Orleans.... and the train finally goes careening off the rails and now there's blood on the tracks somewhere near Alice's Restaurant

funny MK, but it would be better if it was near "Muthers" (maybe "Mothers") in NOLA, cuz they have the best dang sandwiches!! That'll cure any cuss contest and it's worth the train wreck to get there!

[cbd2cai 0]

Hahahahhahaaaaa now I have this image in my mind of Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie, both with their acoustic guitars and harmonicas, trying to out-cuss each other in the most unique and weirdest nasal voices, running on top of the rail cars and wrestling for control of the City of New Orleans.... and the train finally goes careening off the rails and now there's blood on the tracks somewhere near Alice's Restaurant

funny MK, but it would be better if it was near "Muthers" (maybe "Mothers") in NOLA, cuz they have the best dang sandwiches!! That'll cure any cuss contest and it's worth the train wreck to get there!

OK, Noura!! we are going there the next time I come down to NOLA!!!

[noura 0]

Hahahahhahaaaaa now I have this image in my mind of Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie, both with their acoustic guitars and harmonicas, trying to out-cuss each other in the most unique and weirdest nasal voices, running on top of the rail cars and wrestling for control of the City of New Orleans.... and the train finally goes careening off the rails and now there's blood on the tracks somewhere near Alice's Restaurant

funny MK, but it would be better if it was near "Muthers" (maybe "Mothers") in NOLA, cuz they have the best dang sandwiches!! That'll cure any cuss contest and it's worth the train wreck to get there!

OK, Noura!! we are going there the next time I come down to NOLA!!!

done! u can count on it!

[mybackpages 0]

Hahahahhahaaaaa now I have this image in my mind of Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie, both with their acoustic guitars and harmonicas, trying to out-cuss each other in the most unique and weirdest nasal voices, running on top of the rail cars and wrestling for control of the City of New Orleans.... and the train finally goes careening off the rails and now there's blood on the tracks somewhere near Alice's Restaurant

funny MK, but it would be better if it was near "Muthers" (maybe "Mothers") in NOLA, cuz they have the best dang sandwiches!! That'll cure any cuss contest and it's worth the train wreck to get there!

OK, Noura!! we are going there the next time I come down to NOLA!!!

done! u can count on it!

Road trip to New Orleans! Who's in?

[mybackpages 0]

Arlo Guthrie was the performer on the famous version, I think.

But it was written by someone else. The lyrics are quite amazing.....

HEY Buzz the gate and let in your friend's box! I've got chocolates.

[noura 0]

Road trip to New Orleans! Who's in?

c'mon down!!! the po-boys and sandwiches really are something not to be missed! It's a New Orleans institution!

[cbd2cai 0]

Hahahahhahaaaaa now I have this image in my mind of Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie, both with their acoustic guitars and harmonicas, trying to out-cuss each other in the most unique and weirdest nasal voices, running on top of the rail cars and wrestling for control of the City of New Orleans.... and the train finally goes careening off the rails and now there's blood on the tracks somewhere near Alice's Restaurant

funny MK, but it would be better if it was near "Muthers" (maybe "Mothers") in NOLA, cuz they have the best dang sandwiches!! That'll cure any cuss contest and it's worth the train wreck to get there!

OK, Noura!! we are going there the next time I come down to NOLA!!!

done! u can count on it!

Road trip to New Orleans! Who's in?

Actually, I am hoping that I can bring along the hubster . . . so maybe February???? oh, wait, NOT for Mardi Gras . . . that would be too crazy!

[mybackpages 0]

Road trip to New Orleans! Who's in?

c'mon down!!! the po-boys and sandwiches really are something not to be missed! It's a New Orleans institution!

I'm a New Orleans native. For me po-boys and sandwiches is the samething

[noura 0]

Road trip to New Orleans! Who's in?

c'mon down!!! the po-boys and sandwiches really are something not to be missed! It's a New Orleans institution!

I'm a New Orleans native. For me po-boys and sandwiches is the samething

I didn't realize you're a native! I said that for the "unenlightened"