Chords for Arlo Guthrie/ City Of New Orleans

One time a few years ago around 1970 I was up in Chicago playing in a bar and after
After the show was over
The owner of the place was a friend of mine come up and said hey Arlo a friend of mine wants to sing you a song
And I said, oh, come on, man.
I don't want to hear no songs.
I hate songs
I don't even like my own songs.
What am I gonna listen to other people's songs for?
I mean everybody think they wrote the cosmic universal anthem song of the month club song.
I was going on and on and on
And finally this little guy comes around the corner and he's smiling at me.
He says Arlo.
I just want to sing you one song
So this is tell tell you what buy me a beer
I'll sit here and drink it as long as it lasts you can do it.
Every you want
He says that sounds like a good deal.
That's is it did
_ This is the song me saying me
_ Guys name was Steve Goodman.
He wrote a lot of great songs
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ [G] Riding [D] on the city
[G] _
_ _ [D] _ [Em] _ [C] Money money [G]
man
[C] _ _ [G] 15 [D] 15
restless [G] rattles
[E] three conductors
[D] 25 [G] stacks of mail
_ [Em] all along the southbound I've a see
[Bm] The train pulls out of Camp [D] McKinney
All past houses [A] farms and fields
_ [Em] And sing trains that have no [Bm] name
the freight yards full of old black men
[D] and the graveyards of the rusted out [G] of appeals _
_ [C] Good Lord
[D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Em] say don't you know [C] me
I'm your native [G] son
[D] I'm [G] the train that [D] calls
city of [Em] New Orleans.
[A] _ [F] I'll be gone by [D] the time that [G] day is done.
_ _ _ _ _ Dealing card games [D] with the old men [G] in the club car.
_ _ [Em] Penny [C] appointing, no-one keeping [G] score.
_ _ Pass the [D] paper, bag them, hold [G] the bottle.
_ _ [Em] Feel the [D] wheels running beneath [G] the floor.
_ _ [Em] And the sons of old men quarters, and [Bm] the sons of engineers,
ride [D] their fun of magic carpet made [A] of steel.
_ [Em] Others with their babes asleep, [Bm] rocking to the gentle beat.
[D] And the rhythm of the rim is all [G] they feel.
You know what's up, help us out.
[C] Good [D] morning.
_ [G] _ _ _ [Em] Say don't you know [C] me.
_ [G] _ _ [A] I'm not a train to [D] call the city [E] of New Orleans.
_ [A] _ [F] I'll be gone by [D] the time the [G] day is done. _ _ _ _
_ _ Night [D] time on the city [G] of New Orleans.
_ _ [Em] Changing [C] cars in Memphis, [G] Tennessee.
[C] _ _ [G] Halfway [D] home and we'll be [G] there by morning.
_ [E] Through the Mississippi [D] darkness, rolling [G] down to the sea.
_ [Em] But all the towns and people seem [Bm] to fade into a bad dream.
[D] Stealing the rail, stealing [A] the blues.
_ [Em] The conductor sends his songs again.
[Bm] Passengers, but please refrain.
[D] This train's got the disappearing [G] railroad blues.
_ [C] And the [D] sons of old men [G] _ _
_ [Em] said, don't you [C] know me.
_ [G] _ _
_ I'm not a train [D] to call the city of New [C#] Orleans.
[F] I'll be gone by [D] the time the day [G] is done.
What's up, good night America.
[A] [C] Good night.
[D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] [Em] Say don't you know [C] me.
I'm not a [G] _ _ [D] _ [G] train to call the [D] city of New [Em] Orleans.
_ [A] I'll be gone by _ [D] the time the day [G] is done.
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
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