May your dreams come true, mate! God Bless you too!

Being an American is a state of mind. Come by soon!

Let me welcome you in advance! We would be happy to have you.

Take a train trip around the country, that’s the real way to see America!

@@expletivedeleted7853 id have to disagree. The US is meant to be seen by car most definitely. It's the country where the idea of a road trip began. So many "main streets" and small towns and places a train could never go. I say this as somebody who's been a long haul trucker for years. I've been up and down this beautiful country in every season.

My father is from the usa... He was born in Jacksonville and lived his youth in New Orleans... He lived also after in California and Washington... Then went to Ireland (where he lived 3 years) and France... He was a Veteran Who then became anti war activist and a post Beatnik in some way .. (he also lived in Colorado some time at his youth as his father was from there)... But Im from Uruguay haha and he came here and had a family here (and also there in some way)... This song is powerful for me

Im a scouse American lad haha, I’m your native son haha 🇺🇸☘️

amen keep on trucking Allzeit staufreie Fahrt von einem Deutschen Kollegen

They say inside of everyone is an American ready to come out! Maybe that's a little arrogant but very true for some. World please remember we are not our government.

Ehhhhh Against The Wind wasn’t one of the best.

I like Willy but I prefer Arlo for this song

I know this sounds bitterly sardonic. But exactly how did our culture become so indifferent to the sanctity and equality of human life? As David Klinghoffer noted, Roe v. Wade had a lot to do with it, of course. But subsequent to that, three major cultural tipping points fueled popular acceptance of death-culture paradigms. Wesley Smith cited the killing career of Jack Kevorkian, the tragedy of Terri Schiavo, and the Planned Parenthood fetal organ harvesting videos as turning points. Economies should be built to keep people going. People are not here to keep the economy going. People drive the economy. Not the other way around. Economies should be built by people for the people - In memory of JFK. ❤ “The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath” (Mark 2:27). These words of the Savior remind us that the Sabbath day was meant to be a blessing rather than a burden to those who observe it. ❤ Economies work better when they honor the 'relationship of mutualism'. ❤ A big part of the 'retail apocalypse' is called planned obsolescence. Some products inevitably become obsolete after a short time. Planned obsolescence examples in day-to-day life include disposable cameras, cutlery, shopping bags, water bottles, take-out containers & CELL PHONES.

@@gabemartinez2558 I’m with you. Arlo owns this one.

@@Bender2146dayumm brutherr mr Willie’d bin out near damn a week wen e’d sang that ther song

As a Finn I want to do the trip from east to west southbound route. One day it'll be true if God has mercy on me.

@@Jaska8000 Do it! I did LA to NY through the south with a detour up to Yellowstone National Park. It was the best thing I have ever done

@@Garagejammimg Cool. I definitely want to stop at Las Vegas too. Gotto see that plastic city of sex & gambling and fake Elvises. David did you buy a reasonable car or did you rent it?

@@Jaska8000 I rented. I went with two other friends so the price wasn't too bad. It also saved the hassle of worrying about buying and selling a worthy car

@@Garagejammimg Good to know. Maybe renting is better afterall, they have insurance and no hassle with an old car and all the paperwork.

B Care full 🙏

I take the Starlight down the coast of California just as often as I can - which fortunately it very often - and am absolutely inlove with the American train mystique.

Tony Danis The City of New Orleans is actually my go-to train... it goes through my hometown. I ride up to Chicago or down to New Orleans a couple times a year.

I didn't know that,thanks Rocky !

Steel on steel is so much more energy efficient than rubber on asphalt.

Boutta become six if NS buys CSX because of the great Harrison collapse

That's sweet memory man. Did y'all travel on motorcycles ?, see your Harley profile picture.

@@brownjatt21 man that's my dream to travel on motorcycle, I'm so pissed off with nowadays world's tendency to madness so that'd help me get distracted)

May your dad R.I.P, and God bless you.

@@turtleblazer3310 thank you 🙏🏼 GOD Bless you to....

I’m so sorry, your pain is all too familiar to me as well.

I'm sorry for the loss of your mother.MY passed away 11 months ago and I think of and miss her everyday ahe taught me a lot

Mr Bo jangle s

Mom is watching you waiting for you in heaven!! God bless you

Aww that's nice god bless her

10 years today for my dad. This was one of his favorites. Hope you're doing well Ann. Memories never die. 🍻

I wanna write a song about your dad.

Very touching, Jacob.

I love your memories. Pure childhood.

Thanks for sharing that. God bless you and your dad

Thank you for letting us into a moment with your dad. #forever

yeah the days before man took flight for good

Willie and I are the same age,April 1933.

Be glad you're not!

MountainDew7 gtfo

Jason Chipperfield i'll switch places with you!

A guy with the most English name ever wants to be American, and an American with the most French name ever wants to be English. What's going on here?!?!

history

jimi hendrix owns All Along the Watchtower.

Sorry Lobo, but this is a Steve Goodman song and he will always own it, even after his death. Willie and Arlo Guthrie capitalize on Steve's songwriting abilities, but the original version is still by far the best! Steve wrote the best damned train song ever and you should check out the original before getting too teary eyed over Willie's version.

I always felt it was Guthrie who owned it

A gem of Americana folklore. Thank You Steve Goodman, I do believe Kris Kristophen was part of the production team and there's another sprinkle of magic to this. 20 years later in early '90's Willie Nelson takes it to another level, and the number one hit in US charts and music awards thanked Willie for that. Brilliant.

And this arrangement is fabulous, no one else's compares!!

Yes, and the Best Version.

Arlo Guthrie ran away from the chat...

Bellissima canzone!si può definire un vero inno...😊🤗😍😘🎶🎸🎶💘💓💝💯💋🌅

you have to FORCE your life to be simple. easy ignore all the idiots and go about your business. shut down all outside MEDIA influences. its not happening. it only seems that way. go lay face down in the dirt youll wake up in the DIRT.

I'LL ADD TO THAT. OUTSTANDING.

This song is written by Steve Goodman not the Willie

Yea, the thumbs down go away! Why were they here to start with?

Arlo's version is better. Willie, a good singer, but sounds flat here

More american then meth and topless dancers!!!!

God bless Willie and your memories

Retired Union Pacific trackmen here.

​@@stevehulett586ciao Steve!🙋😍😘💘🍀

Very cool to see railroaders on here. Cheers to you guys

is always a hobo and spray paint a railcar

Exactly, he had a good one that David Allen Coe made famous also. How about ,,GO CUBS GO! Dude was incredibly underrated.

I miss the Choo Choo train!!😂

God Bless from Saskatchewan.Canada

Heikki Rantalaiho Sorry to break it to ya. But I doubt Amtrak a government funded railroad cares about a song. They mainly care about the money of the route/train. But still this is a amazing cover of the song.

@@SouthernRailPhotography Maybe this song made it more popular, thus making it more profitable.

I also saw him when he was visiting Norway bavk in 08. His sister was playing the piano, she was a great talent too. Recently I've been getting aware of his son Lucas. He sounds a lot like his dad, what a great gift he has recieved.

Mine too.

Very true. In our household

Pullman porters, not coalman porters.

@@jimmclaughlin8195 Cheers, never met any in real life so no wonder I got that one wrong (-:

Pullman porters .... there were Pullman rail cars who had porters, and most of the porters were black men

Sorry you lost ome good moments by not knowing until 2 yrs. ago, He could act also.

Who were you listening to? Listen to the Highwaymen country music band and you won't regret

I didn't discover John Prine until he passed. Consider yourself lucky!

hook up with the outlaws with him and waylon jennings ul love them

Better late than never my friend

I remember driving over the Mississippi River going into New Orleans listing to Willie.... what a feeling 👍🏿

What does it smell like? One particular thing... or a complex composition of different aromas?

@@melissachartres3219It smells like bathroom disinfectant. I’ve ridden along it before. Amtrak is better than flying to me, but the super liner cars don’t smell very great.

100%

100%

And Johnny cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson

Pretty close

Jones. None better.

Willie Nelson. Writing killer songs in the 1950’s. Hit the big time in the 1970’s. Still touring in 2024. Best ever.

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You know what?! You're right!!!

Hello 👋 mary.

​@@jimrobert7239ciao Jim!🙋😍😘💘🌅

You ACTUALLY rode this train? You'll never forget these wonderful memories.

I never knew it was written by Steve Goodman...thanks for pointing out the "cover"

Also like Georgia on my mind best by him

Both Willie Nelson and Arlo Guthrie have their own touches on the song but Willie's guitar adds that special relationship to the song

I think willies is the original

@@captainhuggyface6731 Steve Goodmans is the original and the best, of course I'm a bit biased on that.

That's why it's up to us Railfans to keep the tradition of trains alive

There still is a train called that

Hello from the snowcapped mountains fellow Austrian! Glad to see my home country represented here already.

They certainly don’t!

This is what I love about America this song makes me feel free-spirited may God bless America

I am sorry you lost your soulmate

taste

Glad Willie Nelson is not a douchebag right winger. He proactively supports Democrats and even campaigns for them. When asked in the last election who he supports, he answered both Bernie and Hillary. He doesn’t give a damn what right wingers think. 🤘🇺🇸

@@TheRealBizWiz why are you bringing up politics? Just because you're right wing, doesn't make them racist, homophobic or sexist (not most either, I've seen a fuck ton of racist and sexist on the left). If you can say that about right wingers, I can say left wingers are anti-American, anti-constution, communist degenerates. But I don't, because it's a mass generalization.

@@Mossyoakwendigo4.6 handled that well, God bless you.

True Pure Country about the United States and all those men that made that railroad possible so long ago. Thank you Willie

Hello beautiful how are you doing!!

Or as Robert Louis Stevenson put it, " It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. ".

Dana Delaney Bounds great memory to this song. I remember waking in winter and being away from home

Dana Delaney Bounds it's amazing how hearing a song can transport you back in time, right? That song was on the complimentary cassette that Oldsmobile provided with my mother's 1984 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Regency. That was the first time I heard it and it seems like yesterday.

I will to thats the year I lost my first love

I'm sorry for your loss my friend.

Like Dana says, sometimes you just remember where you were when you hear a certain song.

If you ever have the time sit down and listen to all 3 versions of this song, first the Steve Goodman version, then Arlo Guthrie's version, and last listen to Willie's

Billy Walchuk where abouts in Canada?

@@Derelictdumpburnouts Probably Fort Steele Heritage Town

@@donniedahlia2031 Dont forget the version with the Highwaymen, one of the best

Coley Jones Summerland BC also has one

I rode Amtrak's Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland a few years ago.... absolute beauty from start to finish... the highlights would be riding west... dinner in the evening along the Mississippi River in Minnesota, the Plains for the majority of the next day, and dinner in the early evening going through the Rockies, and then the Columbia River Gorge the next morning. Absolutely stunning.

Mr. Boomer that sounds fantastic. Glad you had a great time

I’m fixing to do just that! I’m painting and packing the ol’ truck camper and I’m outta here

This song just really inspires me and it brings tears to my heart may God bless America it just makes me want to go pack my bags and travel across this great land of hours

Russell, agreed, but don't neglect Toni Wine's distinct, excellent, and haunting, background vocals.

Who doesn't love Willie,you're crazy if you don't!!!!

Glad Willie Nelson is not a douchebag right winger. He proactively supports Democrats and even campaigns for them. When asked in the last election who he supports, he answered both Bernie and Hillary. He doesn’t give a damn what right wingers think. 🤘🇺🇸

Me too,and I got to see Willie in person in consert. He continue to keep on playing, and sing L O N G after the consert was to be over. Did you ecer get to see Willie in concert? Good memory for me.

It hit #1 country, in '84, not '78.

Im just saying, I think this is the best song in history

Exactly

I Agree that Arloe Gurthree and Johnny Cash do a good job - I'm a bit a confused as to who wrote this? I believe Arlo actually

@@WilliamDavidKirbyUK ciao William!🙋😍😘💘💓

@@WilliamDavidKirbyUK I believe it was Steve Goodman who wrote this song

Me too!😍

Only Willie can

Hell yea!

Nelson's long time harmonica man is Mickey Raphael .

@@markbridwell8972 And he's INCREDIBLE!!

omg i love it!

Rustled Jimmies this version is tops my friend!

sort yourself out pal,no need for the .... or the villan,just enjoy the music.

That response is like George Constanza saying, "you gotta do it classy" while wiping his mouth at a cafe table with his button-up shirt sleeve. Willie does this song more than justice and his voice blends into the guitar fadeaway chords. But you have to say thumbs up to Steve on this one for composing these wonderful lyrics. RIP Steve Goodman.

Rustled Jimmies mm

Hello there Kate nice meeting you here

Drinks vodka

Но кавер Джо Дассена лучше, не?

Дмитрий Латышев i order you to have iluminati banned for subliminal messages theres death penalty for them playing mind games its me pharaoh Joseph Achilles Ishmael Moses isaiah Gidian Jesus Bethlehem Christ child

You better hope Vlad Putin doesn’t read this

Дмитрий Латышев i had 2 Russian people catching my brother king Solomon reborn and i Jesus Bethlehem in Portland Oregon

Hello Lori how are you doing!!

I hope your vist goes, or did go, wonderfully!

see Todd white :)

It’s going to be ok man I understand how it is I am 17 and I barely get to see my dad and it hurts I miss him as well but I’ll tell you it’s going to get better keep your head up and keep on going man