City Of New Orleans Lyrics
I love this song. It's always felt like a good childhood memory. (Maybe that's because that is what it is for me.) But still, there's that feeling of comfortable nostalgia in the way he sings it.
Graveyards of rusty automobiles...great image.
I always felt the writer was lamenting decline of the railroads in the 60s and 70s, particularly passenger trains such as the songs namesake. During this period the railroads were a dying industry and not too many people thought they would make the great comeback they did in the 80s and continue to this day.
One of my ALL time favorite lines: penny a point, ain't no one keeping score
i totally agree. my dad used to play this song all the time so it just sort of got burned into my memory. it gives me a great feeling. when i was really little i liked it just because its about a train, and he really does have a good singing voice. ive always loved it
i totally agree. my dad used to play this song all the time so it just sort of got burned into my memory. it gives me a great feeling. when i was really little i liked it just because its about a train, and he really does have a good singing voice. ive always loved it
My older cousins played this for me all the time when I was younger. When I got older I heard the line "Mothers sing their babes to sleep rocking to the gentle beat and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel." randomly one day. That was always my favorite line.
I'm old enough to remember what trains were like in the era of the "disappearin' railroad blues." I start to tear up every time I hear it.