City Of New Orleans - Willie Nelson Country Series

Ridin' on the City of New Orleans

在New Orleans骑行

I llinois Central Monday morning rail

llinois中心 星期一的早晨 我在围栏旁

Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders

15辆车和15个不安的骑手

Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail

3个指挥员和25个信件麻袋

All along the southbound odyssey

沿着odyssey的南边

The train pulls out of Kankakee

火车开出Kankakee

And rolls along past houses farms and fields

经过房屋 农场和田野

Passing trains that have no name

经过的火车没有名字

And graveyards full of old black men

墓地里站满黑人

And graveyards full of rusted automobiles

墓地里停满生锈的摩托车

Good morning America how are you say

早上好美国 你怎么说

Don't you know me I'm your native son

你不知道你是我的家乡

I'm the train they call

我是火车 他们说这城市叫

The City of New Orleans

New Orleans

And I'll be gone five hundred miles

再有500里我就离开

When the day is done

当这天结束

Dealin' cards with an old man at the club car

餐车的老人拿着卡片

Many a point ain't no one keepin' score

没有人得分

Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle

传递纸袋 握住瓶子

And feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor

感到轮子在地板上嗡嗡的响

And the sons of poor men porters

贫困搬运工的孩子们

And the sons of engineers

工程师的孩子们

Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel

骑着父亲钢制的魔毯

Mothers with their babes asleep

妈妈和孩子们已进入梦乡

Rockin' to that gentle beat

轻轻地打拍

And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel

节凑就是他们的感受

Good morning America how are you say

早上好美国 你怎么说

Don't you know me I'm your native son

你不知道你是我的家乡

I'm the train they call

我是火车 他们说这城市叫

The City of New Orleans

New Orleans

And I'll be gone five hundred miles

再有500里我就离开

When the day is done

当这天结束

Night time on the City of New Orleans

New Orleans的晚间

Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee

在Memphis Tennessee转车

Half way home we'll be there by morning

早上我们就只剩一半的路程就要到家

Through the Mississippi darkness

穿过黑暗的Mississippi

Rolling down to the sea

开过海洋

And all the towns and people seem

所有的村庄和人们似乎

To fade into a bad dream

渐入噩梦

And the steel rails still ain't heard the news

可钢轨仍然没有得到消息

The conductor sings his songs again

售票员再次唱歌

The passengers will please refrain

乘客会喜欢副歌

This train has got the disappearing railroad blues

火车把消失的铁轨染成蓝色

Good morning America how are you say

早上好美国 你怎么说

Don't you know me I'm your native son

你不知道你是我的家乡

I'm the train they call

我是火车 他们说这城市叫

The City of New Orleans

New Orleans

And I'll be gone five hundred miles

再有500里我就离开

When the day is done

当这天结束