City Of New Orleans Chords by Arlo Guthrie

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_ _ _ _ Riding [C#] on the city [F#] of New Orleans, _ _ [D#m] Illinois [B] Central, Monday [F#] morning rail,
_ _ 15 [C#] cars and 15 restless [F#] riders, _ [D#m] three conductors, [C#] 25 sacks [F#] of mail.
_ [D#m] All along the southbound Odyssey, [A#m] the train pulls out at Canter Key,
[C#] 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.
_ _ [B] Good morning [C#] America, [F#] how are you?
_ [C#] [D#m] Said don't you know me, [B] [F#] I'm your native son, [C#] [F#] I'm the train they call [C#] the city of [F#] New Orleans,
[G#] I'll be [B] gone 500 [C#] miles when the day [F#] is done. _ _ _ _ _ _
Dealing card fees with [C#] the old men in the [F#] club cars, _
[D#m] Penny a point, ain't [B] no one keeping [F#] score, _ _
Pass the paper [C#] bag that holds [F#] the bottle, _ _
[D#m] Feel the [C#] wheels rumbling beneath the [F#] floor,
_ And the [D#m] sons of old men porters, and the [A#m] sons of engineers,
Write [C#] 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?
Said [D#m] don't you [B] know me, [F#] I'm your native son,
_ [C#] I'm [F#] the train they call [C#] the city of [D#m] New [G#] Orleans,
I'll be [B] gone 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,
_ _ Half way 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 [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 [C#] night America, [F#] how are you?
_ [D#m] Said don't you know [B] me, I'm your [F#] native son,
_ [C#] [F#] I'm the train they call the [C#] 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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