Chords for City Of New Orleans-Arlo Guthrie/ Mike Sinatra Rendition

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Riding on [Bb] the city of [Eb] New Orleans, _ _ [Cm] Illinois [Ab] Central, Monday morning [Eb]
rail,
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] 15 [Bb] cars and 15 restless [Eb]
riders, _ _ _ [Cm] 3 [Bb] conductors and 25 [Eb] sacks of mail.
_ _ [Cm] All along the southbound odyssey, [Gm] train pulled out of Kankakee,
_ [Bb] rolled along past [Fm] houses, [F] farms and _ fields.
_ [Cm] There's passing trains that have no names, [Gm] _
graveyards full of old black men,
[Bb] and _ graveyards of the rusted _ [Eb] _ _
automobiles.
_ _ [Ab] Good [Bb] morning America, [Eb] how are you?
_ _ [Cm] I said, don't you know [Ab] me, I'm your [Eb] native son.
[Bb] Hey, I'm the train that [Bb] called the city [Cm] of New Orleans.
[F] _ _ [Ab] I'll be gone [Bb] 500 miles when my day [Eb] is done,
_ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ dealing card [Bb] games with the old men in the [Eb] club car.
_ _ [Cm] Penny a point, [Ab] ain't no one [Eb] keeping score.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] Pass the [Bb] paper bag that holds [Eb] the bottle,
_ _ [Cm] Can you feel the [Bb] wheels rumbling beneath the [Eb] _
floors?
_ [Cm] And the sons of home and porters, [Gm] and the sons of engineers,
[Bb] ride their daddy's magic carpets [C] made of [F] _
steel.
_ [C] There's [Cm] mothers with their babes asleep, [Gm] rocking to a gentle beat,
[Bb] the rhythm of the rails, that's all [Eb] they feel.
_ _ _ [Ab] Good [Bb] morning America, [Eb] how are you?
_ [Cm] I said, don't you know [Ab] me, I'm your [Eb] native _ [Bb] son.
Hey, I'm the [Eb]
train that called [Bb] the city of New [Cm]
Orleans.
_ [F] _ [Ab] I'll be gone [Bb] 500 miles when my day [Eb] is done.
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_ _ _ Hey, it's night [Bb] time on the city of [Eb] New Orleans,
_ _ _ [Cm] _
changing [Ab] cars in Memphis, _ [F]
Tennessee.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb]
Halfway home and [Bb] we'll be there [Eb] by morning,
_ _ [Cm] through the Mississippi [Bb] darkness rolling down [Eb] the sea.
_ _ _ [Cm] Now all the towns and the people [Gm] seem to fade into a bad dream,
[Bb] but the steel rails still ain't [C] heard [F] the news.
_ The [Cm] conductor sings the songs [Gm] again, passengers will please refrain,
[Bb] this train's got the disappearing [Eb] railroad _ blues.
_ _ [Ab]
Good [Bb] night America, [Eb] how are you?
_ _ [Cm] I said, don't you know [Fm] me, I'm your [Eb] native _ [Bb] son.
Hey, I'm the [Eb] train that called the [Bb] city of New [Cm] Orleans.
_ [F] _ [Ab] I'll be gone [Bb] 500 miles when my day is [Eb] done.
_ [Fm] I'll be gone [Bb] 500 miles when my day is done.
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