City Of New Orleans Chords by Arlo Guthrie

[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Riding on [C#] the city of [F#] New Orleans _
[D#m] Illinois Central, [B] Monday [F#] morning rail _ _
Fifteen cars [C#] and fifteen restless [F#] riders
Three _
[D#m] conductors, [C#] twenty-five sacks [F#] of mail _ _
[D#m] All along the southbound heart of C,
[A#m] The train pulls out at Panty Key
[C#] It rolls along past houses, farms [G#] and fields _ _
[D#m] Passing trains that have no name
[A#m] Graveyards full of old black [C#] men
And the graveyards of the rusted [F#] automobile
Good _
[B] [C#] morning America, [F#] how are you?
[C#] Say, [D#m] don't you know me?
[B] I'm [F#] your native son
_ [C#] [F#] I'm the train they call [C#] the city of New [D#m] Orleans
[G#] [E] I'll be [B] gone in five [C#] hundred miles when the day is [F#] done _ _ _
_ _ Dealing card fees [C#] with the old [F#] men in the flood car
_ _ [D#m] Penny a [B] point, ain't no [F#] one keeping score
_ _ Pass the paper [C#] bag that holds the [F#] bottle
_ _ [D#m] Feel the wheels [C#] rumbling beneath the [F#] floor
_ [D#m] And the sons of Pullman porters
And the [A#m] sons of engineers
Write their [C#] fathers magic carpets made of [G#] steel
_ _ [D#m] Mothers with their babies asleep
[A#m] Rocking to the gentle [C#] beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all [F#] they feel
_ _ _ [B] [C#] Good morning America, [F#] how are you?
Say, [D#m] don't you [B] know me?
I'm [F#] your native son
_ [C#] [F#] I'm the train they call [C#] the city of [D#m] New [G#] Orleans
I'll be [E] gone in [B] five hundred [C#] miles when the day [F#] is done _ _ _ _ _
Night time [C#] on the city of [F#] New Orleans
_ [C#]
[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 heard [G#] the news _
[D#m] The conductor sings his songs again
[A#m] The passengers will please refrain
[C#] This train [F#] got to [C#] disappear in [F#] railroad blue _
[B] Good night, [C#] _ [F#] how are you? _
[D#m] Say, don't you know [B] me?
I'm your [F#] native son
_ [C#]
[F#] I'm the train they [C#] call the city [D#m] of New [F#] Orleans
[G#] _
[B] I'll be gone in five [C#] hundred miles when the day is [F#] done _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ [B] _ _
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