DESCRIPTION:
This is Wille Nelson's 1984 cover of "City of New Orleans". The song is about the passenger train of the same name operated by the Illinois Central Railroad. The train is now operated by Amtrak. The song was written by Steve Goodman (best known to country music fans as the writer of David Allan Coe's "You Never Even Called Me by My Name"). The song went to #1 on the country charts and made the top 40 on the pop charts.