Favorite song about NEW ORLEANS?

[NightTrain]

[yardwork]

1. Where is "City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie?

[NightTrain]

3. That song is not about the Crescent City; it's about a train.

Sorry! :shrug:

[Spinzonner]

5. Probably didnt match his train of thought

[qnr]

8. Right here

Arlo Guthrie--City of New Orleans

Have Alice's Restaurant too, if anyone wants it.

[gmoney]

10. City of New Orleans by STEVIE GOODMAN

Steve Goodman was probably the sweetest human being ever, and as Arlo Guthrie said, he "wrote the best damn train song I've ever heard."

Arlo had the hit, granted... Stevie also wrote "Door Number Three" for Jimmy Buffett, and "You Never Even Call Me by My Name" which was a big hit for David Allen Coe.

Steve died young of leukemia (I believe).

He wrote a great song that really sums up his spirit. When I have my wits about me, I try to live up to its message:

You Better Get it While You Can (A Tribute to Carl Martin)

"You better get it while you can, you better get it while you can,
If you wait too long it'll all be gone, and you'll be sorry then.
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, and it's the same for a woman or a man,
From the cradle to the crypt is a mighty short trip, so you better get it while you can."

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=4510176&selectedItemId=4510174

[NightTrain]

12. ..."wrote the best damn train song I've ever heard."

That's exactly my point! It's a TRAIN song, not a NEW ORLEANS song. That's why I didn't include it, y'all!

[gmoney]

13. I'm just makin' sure Arlo doesn't get all Stevie's props

:)

I know it's a train song

[Krupskaya]

2. "City of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie.

Great song.

ETA: Damn, you beat me, Yardwork!

EATA: Yeah, but it runs from NO to Chicago.

[gmoney]

4. "New Orleans" from The Simpsons

Long before the SuperDome,
Where the Saints of football play,
Lived a city that the damned called home,
Hear their hellish roundelay...

New Orleeeans...
Home of pirates, drunks, and whores!
New Orleeeans...
Tacky, overpriced, souvenir stores!
If you want to go to Hell, you should make that trip
to the Sodom and Gomorrah on the Mississipp'!

New Orleeeans...
Stinking, rotten, vomiting, vile!
New Orleaaans...
Putrid, brackish, maggoty, foul!
New Orleeeans...
Crummy, lousy, rancid, and rank!

New Orleeeans!

[joeybee12]

15. Could this bewitching floozy, seduce this humble newsie? Oh, what's a

paperboy to DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

One of my favorite episodes!

[LSdemocrat]

17. I agree

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. Tom Waits, "I Wish I Was in New Orleans"

from "Small Change"

[Union Thug]

7. Annie New Orleans... cool old Elf song (rj dio EARLY EARLY stuff) /eom

[olddem43]

9. Battle of New Orleans?

[NightTrain]

11. Oh yeah! Forgot about that one.

Added on edit. Thanks!

[chaska]

14. I didn't think you were gonna get to it.

That Redbone tune rocks.

[NightTrain]

16. Kick for whomever missed the poll last night.

I did, after all, post it kinda late!

[tcfrogs]

18. How about "Mr. Bojangles" - Jerry Jeff Walker

Wrote the song while in a New Orleans jail...

[redqueen]

19. Dire Straits - Planet of New Orleans