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Peacetrain

(22,880 posts)
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 12:49 PM Dec 2020

If were joining DU today, the name I would choose would be "The City of New Orleans"

after the last 4 years, I feel the last stanzas to my bones..








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
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If were joining DU today, the name I would choose would be "The City of New Orleans" (Original Post) Peacetrain Dec 2020 OP
Always loved that song Dream Girl Dec 2020 #1
Love the song too..but that last part speaks so much to what is happening today.. this is not the Peacetrain Dec 2020 #5
Love the song! FM123 Dec 2020 #2
A true American classic! Wounded Bear Dec 2020 #3
I would choose 'Trump Underground', because 99 out of 100 threads are bout him, lol Baclava Dec 2020 #4

Peacetrain

(22,880 posts)
5. Love the song too..but that last part speaks so much to what is happening today.. this is not the
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 09:19 PM
Dec 2020

America we always bragged about.. we are losing it because of the Trumplicans trying to destroy our democracy

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

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