Chords for Arlo Guthrie /City of New Orleans

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[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] Riding on [D] the city [G] of New Orleans
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [Em]
The Illinois Central [C] _ Monday [G] morning rail _ _ _ _ _ _
Fifteen [D] cars and fifteen restless [G] _
riders
_ _ _ [D] Three [Em] _
conductors [D] and twenty-five sacks [G] of mail
_ All _ _ [D] _ [Em]
along the southbound Odyssey
_ [Bm] The train pulls out in Kentucky
_ [D] And rolls along past houses, [A] farms and _ fields
_ _ _ [Em] Passing _ trains that have no name
[Bm] Freight yachts full of old black men
[D] And the creek yards of the rusted _ _ [G] _
automobiles
_ _ [C] Good _ _ _ morning [D] _ America, [G] how are you?
_ _ _ _ [Em] Say, don't you know me?
[C] _ I'm your [G] native son
_ _ [D] _ [G] I'm the train that got the [D] city of [Em] New _ Orleans
[A] _ I'll [F] be gone [C] five [D] hundred miles when the day [G] is _ _ [C] done
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] Feeding _ cockies [D] with the old man in [G] the club car
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [Em] Penny pointing [C] a wine keeping [G] star
_ _ _ [C] Pass _ [G] _
the paper [D] bag that hovers [G] the bottle
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [Em] Feel the wheels [D] rumbling beneath the [G] _
floor
_ And [D] the [Em] sons of old men porters
And the [Bm] sons of engineers
_ Write [D] their fathers magic carpet made of [A] steel
_ _ _ _ [D] Mothers [Em] _
with their babes asleep
_ [Bm] Rocking to the gentle beat
[D] And the rhythm _ of the rail is all they [G] hear
_ _ Good _ _ [C] _
morning _ [D] _ America, [G] how are _ _ _ _ you?
[D] Say, [Em] don't you know me?
[C] I'm your native [G] _
son
_ _ [D] _ I'm [G] the train that got [D] the city of [Em] New _ Orleans
[A] _ I'll [F] be gone [C] five hundred [D] miles when the day [G] is done
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Night time [D] on the city of New [G] Orleans
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [Em] _
Changing cars [C] in Memphis, _ [G] Tennessee _
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Halfway [D] home and we'll be there by [G] morning
_ _ Through _ [D] [Em] the Mississippi darkness [D] rolling down to [G] the sea
_ _ But _ [D] _ [Em] all the towns and people seem [Bm] to fade into a bad dream
And [D] the steel rail still ain't heard [A] the news
_ _ The [Em] conductor _ sings his songs again
[Bm] The passengers were pleased with rain
[D] His train got the _ disappearing railroad [G] _
news
_ _ Good _ [C] _
night _ [D] America, [G] how are you?
_ _ _ _ [Em] Say, don't you know me?
[C] _ I'm your native [G] _
son
_ [D] _ _ [G] I'm the train that got [D] the city of [Em] New _ Orleans
[A] _ _ I'll [F] be gone [C] five hundred [D] miles when the day [G] is done
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