Acres of Limeliters - Glenn Yarbrough & The Limeliters

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. 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. 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

Green acres is the place to be Farm living is the life for me Land spreading out so far and wide Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside New York is where I'd rather stay I get allergic smelling hay I just adore a penthouse view The chores, the stores, fresh air, times square Green acres is the place to be Farm living is the life for me Land spreading out so far and wide Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside I love my wife, goodbye city life Green Acres take me there

Some men climb a mountain Some men swim the sea Some men fly above the sky They are what they must be But, baby, the rain must fall Baby, the wind must blow Wherever my heart leads me Baby, I must go, baby I must go I do not love for silver I do not love for gold My heart is mine to give away It never will be sold But, baby, the rain must fall Baby, the wind must blow Wherever my heart leads me Baby, I must go, baby I must go I am not rich or famous But who can ever tell? I don't know now what waits for me Maybe heaven, maybe hell But, baby, the rain must fall Baby, the wind must blow Wherever my heart leads me Baby, I must go, baby I must go