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CITY OF NEW ORLEANS / SALUT LES AMOUREUX


Ridin' on the 'City of New Orleans'Illinois Central, 
Monday morning rail,Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders 
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail

All  along the southbound odissey the train pulls down of Kankakee
It rolls along past houses farms and fields
Passing trains that have no names and
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards  full of rusted automobiles

Good morning America, how are you?
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the 'City of New Orleans'
And I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Night time on the 'City of New Orleans"
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home, we'll be there by morning
Thru the Mississippi darkness, rollin' down to the sea

But all the towns that people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the train of steel still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again
The passengers will please refrain
The train has got the dissappearing railroad blues

Good night America, how are you?
Say, 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

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Les matins se suivent et se ressemblent,
Quand l'amour fait place au quotidien,
On n'était pas fait pour vivre ensemble,
Ça n'suffit pas toujours de s'aimer bien
C'est drôle, hier, on s'ennuyait,
Et c'est à peine si l'on trouvait,
Des mots pour se parler du mauvais temps.
Et maintenant qu'il faut partir,

On a cent mille choses à dire,
Qui tiennent trop à cœur pour si peu de temps.
 
On s'est aimé comme on se quitte,
Tout simplement sans penser à demain,
À demain qui vient toujours un peu trop vite,
Aux adieux qui, quelquefois, se passent un peu trop bien.

Roméo, Juliette et tous les autres,
Au fond de vos bouquins, dormez en paix !
Une simple histoire comme la nôtre,
Est de celle qu'on n'écrira jamais.
Allons, petite, il faut partir !
Laisser ici nos souvenirs !
On va descendre ensemble si tu veux ?
Et quand elle va nous voir passer,
La patronne du café,
Va encore nous dire : « Salut les amoureux! »

On s'est aimé comme on se quitte,
Tout simplement sans penser à demain,
À demain qui vient toujours un peu trop vite,
Aux adieux qui, quelquefois, se passent un peu trop bien.



 

 

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