An old song about travel by train; The Oxford and Hampton Railway O come and listen to my song And I will not detain you long, About the folks, they all did throng To the Oxford and 'Ampton Railway. Chorus: Ri-fan, Ti-fan, mirth and fun, Don't you wonder how it's done? Carriages without horses run On the Oxford and 'Ampton Railway. And a modern one; City of New Orleans by Steve Goodman Riding on the City Of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three Conductors; twenty-five sacks of mail All along the southbound odyssey The train pulls out of Kankakee And rolls along past houses, farms and fields Passing trains that have no name, And freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
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