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
[Gbm] _
He said that sounds like a good deal.
I says it does
_ [Em] Well turned out to be one of the finer beers [Gb] of my entire lot
turns out this guy wrote some great songs the 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 [Bb] money [Dm] money real Real
[F] _
_ _ 15 [D] cars and 15 [F] restless riders
_ _ _ [Dm] _ Reconductors
[C]
25 sex [F] a man
_ _ [Dm] All along the Southbound Odyssey
_ [Am] Train pulls out a cat
_ [C] Rolls along past houses [G] for me
_ _ _ _ [Dm] Passing trains that have no
_ [Am] Rejects the whole black [C] grave yards of the rest
_ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Dm] See don't you know [Bb] me I'm a [F] native son
_ _ [C] _ [F] I'm the dream [C] of the city
_ [Dm] _ _ _
[G] _ [Eb] I'll be gone [Bb] 500 miles when you
[F] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ Didn't car keys the [C] old man in [F] the club
_ _ _ _ [Dm] Pretty boy didn't [Bb] know I'm keeping store _ _ _ _
That's the paper [C] bag that holds [F] the bottle
_ _ _ [Dm] He's a wheel
[C] beneath the [F] floor
_ _ _ [Dm] the sons of Pullman porters
the [Am] sons of engineers
Right now [C] father's magic carpet.
They [G] see _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] Mother's 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 [F] native son
[C] _ I'm the [F] train that [C] calls the city of [Dm] New Orleans
[G] _ _
I'll be [Bb] gone 500 [C] miles when you
_ [F] _
_ [Bb] Didn't
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] Nighttime [C] on the city of New Orleans
_ _ _ [Dm] Changing cars [Bb] in Memphis, [F] Tennessee _ _ _ _
Halfway home
[C] Through _ [F] _ _ _
the [Dm] Mississippi [C] darkness rolling down to [F] the sea
_ _ [Dm] But all the towns and people seen [Am] to feed into a bad dream [C] the steel rail
still ain't [G] heard the news _ _
Looking [Dm] up the sings his songs again [Am] the passengers were pleased refrain [C] this train's got to disappear
The railroad [F] clears
_ _ And [Bb] good night [C] America, [F] how are you?
[Dm] Say don't you know [Bb] me, I'm your [F] native _ [C] son
[F] I'm the train that [C] calls the city of [Dm] New Orleans
[G] _ _ [Eb] I'll be gone 500 [C] miles when you [F] Didn't
But all the towns and people seen to feed into a bad dream the steel rail still ain't heard the news
_ Looking up the sings his songs again the passengers were pleased refrain this train's got to disappear
The railroad clears
And good [Bb] _ [C] night America, [F] how are you?
_ [Dm] Say don't you know [Bb] me, I'm your [F] native [C] son
_ [F] I'm the train that [C] calls the city of [Dm] New Orleans
[G] _
_ [Eb] I'll be gone [C] 500 miles when you [F] _
Didn't
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