| Steve Goodman – City of New Orleans Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Just a note--perhaps unneeded, but might as well make sure: Younger listeners may not fully understand the significance of the line "Sons of railway porters and sons of engineers": it is within living memory that *all* "porters" on railway sleeping cars were black (and employees of the Pullman Company, which also owned the cars), while *all* engineers were white. The song is a bittersweet look at a changing country and a changing transportation environment, but explicitly does recognize that passengers were no longer segregated by race. FWIW, | |
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