City Of New Orleans Chords by Arlo Guthrie

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_ _ Riding [C#] on the city [F#] of New Orleans, _ _ [D#m] Illinois [B] Central, Monday [F#] morning rail, _ _
15 [C#] cars and 15 restless [F#] riders, _ [D#m] 3 conductors, [C#] 25 [F#] sacks of mail.
_ [D#m] All along the southbound Odyssey, [A#m] the train pulls out at Kankakee,
[C#] rolls along past houses, farms [G#] and fields, _ _ [D#m] passing trains that have no name,
[A#m] freight yards full of old black men, [C#] and the graveyards of the rust at [F#] automobile. _ _
[B] Good morning [C#] America, [F#] how are you?
_ [D#m] Said, don't you know me?
[B] I'm your native [F#] son.
[C#] I'm [F#] the train that called [C#] the city of [D#m] New Orleans.
[G#] I'll be [E] gone 500 [C#] miles when the day [F#] is done.
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Dealing card games with [C#] the old men in their [F#] club cars,
_ [D#m] penny a point ain't [B] no one keeping [F#] score,
_ _ past the paper [C#] bag that holds [F#] the bottle,
you _ [D#m] feel the wheels [C#] rumbling beneath the [F#] floor. _
And the [D#m] sons of poor men, porters, and the [A#m] sons of engineers,
write [C#] their fathers magic carpets made [G#] of steel. _ _
[D#m] And mothers with their babes asleep, [A#m] rocking to the gentle beat,
[C#] and the rhythm of the rails is all [F#] they feel.
_ _ [B] Good morning America, [F#] how are you? _
[D#m] Said, don't you know me?
[B] I'm your native [F#] son. _
[C#] I'm [F#] the train that called [C#] the city of [D#m] New Orleans.
[C] I'll [E] be gone 500 [C#] miles when the day [F#] is done. _ _
_ _ _ Night time [C#] on the city of [F#] New Orleans, _ _
[D#m] changing cars [B] in Memphis, [F#] Tennessee. _
_ _ Halfway home, [C#] we'll be there [F#] by morning,
_ [D#m] through the Mississippi [C#] darkness rolling down to [F#] the sea. _ _
[D#m] But all the towns and people seem [A#m] to fade into a bad dream,
[C#] and the steel rail still ain't [G#] heard the news.
_ [D#m] The conductor sings his songs again,
[A#m] the passengers will please refrain,
[C#] this train got to disappear and the [F#] railroad lose.
_ _ [B] Good night [C#] America, [F#] how are you?
_ [D#m] Said, don't you know [B] me?
I'm your [F#] native son. _
I'm the train that [C#] called the city [D#m] of New Orleans.
[G#] _ [E] I'll be gone 500 [C#] miles when the day is [F#] done. _ _ _ _
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