text: can you tell me the name of the person who sings....? there is a song that i heard not too long ago, but i have no idea how old the song is or the artist...and don't really know if this is the name of the song..but if anyone knows who sings the song...way long way...its country and that is all i know. thanks i think the song you are looking for is called "long way" and the lyrics are as follows:  "always gazing on feel fear and anxiety always gazing on feel beauty and longing  how many times, how many times, is the mountain of idol hide away? how many times, how many times, is the sea of idol wash away?  long way, long way! before it shut from the light long way, long way! before the day goes over the night (x2)  how many times, how many times, is the mountain of idol hide away? how many times, how many times, is the sea of idol wash away?  long way, long way! before it shut from the light long way, long way! before the day goes over the night (x2)"  preview: http://www.artistdirect.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/applogic+search?select=songs&searchstr=long+way&searchtype=normalsearch&start=1  well it is not arlo guthrie's city of new orleans, but that is a good song:  "city of new orleans  guthrie, arlo best of arlo guthrie"  preview here: http://www.artistdirect.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/applogic+search?select=songs&searchstr=city+of+new+orleans&searchtype=normalsearch&start=55  "the 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 and twenty-five sacks of mail. all along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out at kankakee rolls along past houses, farms and fields. passin' trains that have no names, freight yards full of old black men and the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.  chorus: good morning america how are you? 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 five hundred miles when the day is done.  dealin' card games with the old men in the club car. penny a point ain't no one keepin' score. pass the paper bag that holds the bottle feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor. and the sons of pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpets made of steel. mothers with their babes asleep, are rockin' to the gentle beat and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.  chorus  nighttime on the city of new orleans, changing cars in memphis, tennessee. half way home, we'll be there by morning through the mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea. and all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream and the steel rails still ain't heard the news. the conductor sings his song again, the passengers will please refrain this train's got the disappearing railroad blues.  good night, america, how are you? 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 five hundred miles when the day is done."  peruse arlo guthrie songs here: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/songs/0,,439578,00.html