City Of New Orleans Chords by Arlo Guthrie

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Riding on [C#] the city of [F#] New Orleans, _ [D#m] Illinois Central, [B] Monday [F#] morning rail, _ 15 cars [C#] and
15 restless [F#] riders, _ _ [D#m] three conductors, [C#] 25 sacks [F#] of mail. _
All [D#m] along the southbound Odyssey, [A#m] the train pulls out at Camp Kee,
[C#] it rolls along past houses, farms [G#] and fields, _ _ [D#m] passing trains that have no name,
[A#m] the freight yards full of old black [C#] men, and the graveyards of the rusted automobile.
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_ [B] [C#] Good morning America, how [F#] are you?
[C#] Say, [D#m] don't you know me, [B] I'm [F#] your native son.
_ [C#]
[F#] I'm the train that calls [C#] the city of [F#] New Orleans.
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[B] I'll be gone [C#] 500 miles when the day is [F#] done. _ _
_ _ _ Dealing card [C#] games with the old [F#] men in the club cars,
_ [D#m] penny a [B] point, ain't no [F#] one keeping score.
_ _ There's the paper [C#] bag that holds the [F#] bottle,
_ _ [D#m] you feel the [C#] wheels rumbling beneath the [F#] floor.
_ [D#m] And the sons of poor men porters, and the [A#m] sons of engineers,
[C#] write their fathers magic carpets made of [G#] steel.
_ _ [D#m] Mothers with their babes asleep, [A#m] rocking to the gentle [C#] beat,
and the rhythm of the rails is all [F#] they feel.
_ _ [B] Good [C#] 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 that calls [C#] the city of [D#m] New Orleans.
[G#] _ I'll be [E] gone [B] 500 [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 [F#] steel rail [C#] 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 in [F#] railroad blues. _
[B] Good night [C#] America, [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 that [C#] calls the city [D#m] of New [F#] Orleans.
[G#] _
[B] I'll be gone 500 [C#] miles when the [F#] day is done. _
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_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ [B] _
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[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _