Chords for Arlo Guthrie - The City of New Orleans - Dunegrass 2008

Let's be fun.
_ I
Remember back years [F] ago.
I was [Bb] playing in a bar in Chicago one night
[Gb] This is back around 1970
[Gbm] So and it was a little place up there and I was in those days
We started playing like [Eb] 10 o'clock at night didn't get out [Gb] till 2 or 3 in the morning or something, you know
So after the gig I was packing up my guitars and walking out the door [Bb] and a little guy gets in my way
He says Arlo before you go.
I want to sing you a song man.
I said come [Gb] on
I don't want to hear no songs.
I hate songs.
_ [Abm] I
Don't even like my [Gb] songs.
Why should I be [B] listening to your song?
I was just tired.
I was being a butthead
I wanted to get out of there.
He says Arlo.
I just want to sing you one song
I said, okay, I'll tell you what buy me a beer
I'll sit here and drink it and as long as it lasts [D] you can do it.
Every one
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He said that sounds like a good deal.
I says it does
_ [Em] Well, it turned out to be one of the finer beers [Gb] of my entire life
Turns out this guy wrote some great songs that wonderful great human being and
_ He [F] gave me sang me this song back years ago.
This [Eb] is his his name was Steve Goodman.
[F] This is his song _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] You know a century
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_ _ 15 [D] cars and 15 [F] restless riders
_ _ [Dm] Three conductors
[C]
25 sacks [F] of mail
_ _ [Dm] All along the Southbound Odyssey
_ [Am] train pulls out _
_ _ [C] Rolls along past houses [G] for me
_ _ _ [Dm] Passing trains that have no
_ [Am] Rejects for the whole black [C] man.
We've got something rusted out [F] of a beer _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ I _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] that holds [F] the bottle.
_ _ _ [Dm] Feel the wheels [C] rumbling beneath the [F] floor.
_ _ And [Dm] the sons of home importers,
_ the [Am] sons of engineers, ride their [C] fathers magic carpet, they [G] steal.
_ _ _ [Dm] Mothers with their babes
asleep, [Am] rocking to the gentle beat, [C] and the rhythm of the rail [G] is all they [F] feel. _ _ _
[Bb] Good [C] morning America, [F] how are you?
_ [Dm] Say don't you know [Bb] me, I'm your native [F] son.
_ [C] _ I'm the [F] train that [C] calls the city of [Dm] New Orleans.
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I'll be [Bb] gone 500 [C] miles when the day [F] is done.
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_ _ [F] Nighttime [C] on the city of New Orleans.
I'm _ _ _ [Dm] changing cars [Bb] in Memphis, [F] Tennessee. _ _ _ _
Halfway home [C] and we'll be there [F] by morning. _ _ _
The [Dm] Mississippi Dike [C] is rolling down to [F] the sea.
_ _ _ [Dm] But all the towns and people seem
[Am] to feed into a bad dream.
[C] The steel rail still ain't [G] heard the news. _
Looking [Dm] up to sing his songs again.
[Am] The passengers will please refrain.
[C] This train's got to disappear in a railroad [F] blitz.
_ _ [Bb] Good night [C] America, [F] how are you? _
_ [Dm] Say don't you know [Bb] me, I'm your [F] native son.
[C] _ [F] I'm the train that [C] calls the city of [Dm] New Orleans.
[G] _ _ [Eb] I'll be gone 500 [C] miles when the [F] day is done. _
_ [Bb] Good [C] night America, [F] how are you?
_ [Dm] Say don't you know [Bb] me, I'm your [F] native son.
[C] _ _ [F] I'm the train that [C] calls the city of [Dm] New Orleans.
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_ [Eb] I'll be gone [C] 500 miles when the [F] day is done.
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