…I know I keep rolling straight and true till I find my way back to you but until that day ill be on my own like a rolling bone ridding railroad cars from one town to the next walking boulevards till I'm cold and wet…

…steel rail still ain't heard the news The conductor sings his song again "The passengers will please refrain, This train has got the disappearin' railroad blues Good mornin′ 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 500 miles when the day is done…

…I want my tears back The treetops, the chimneys, the snowbed stories, winter grey Wildflowers, those meadows of heaven, wind in the wheat A railroad across water, the scent of grandfatherly love Blue bayous, Decembers…