Chords for City of New Orleans (Greatest Hits Live, 1986)

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_ _ Riding [A] along the city of New [D] Orleans,
_ _ [Bm] Illinois Central, [G] Monday morning [D] rail,
_ [A] _ _ [D] Fifteen [A] cars and fifteen restless [D] riders,
_ _ [Bm] Three conductors [A] and twenty-five sacks [D] of mail.
_ _ [Bm] All along the southbound Odyssey,
The [F#m] train pulls out from Cappocky,
[A] Rolls along past houses, farms and [E] fields,
_ _ And passing trains that have no names,
[F#m] And freight yards full of old black men,
And [A] the graveyards of the rusted [D] automobiles.
_ _ [G] Good morning [A] America,
_ [D] _ _ _ [Bm] Say don't you know [G] me, I'm your native [D] son,
_ _ And the train they [A] call the City of God.
[E] And I'll [C] be gone five hundred [A] miles when the day [D] is done,
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
Leaving cars [A] with the old [D] man in the club car. _
_ [Bm] Any point [G] there ain't no [D] one keeping score, _
_ Past the [A] paper bag that [D] holds the bottle, _
_ [Bm] The wheel from [D] beneath the floor, _
And [Bm] the songs of Pullman porters,
And [F#m] the songs of engineers,
Ride [A] their fathers magic carpet made of steel, _
_ [Bm] And others with your blades of steel,
[F#m] Rocking to the gentle beat,
And [A] the rhythm of the rails [D] is all they feel. _
_ [G] Good [A] morning [D] America, _ _
[Bm] Say don't you [G] know me, I'm your [D] native son,
And the train they [A] call the City [Bm] of New _ [E]
Orleans,
[C] And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the [D] day is done. _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] I'm [A] on the City of [D] New Orleans,
_ _ [Bm] Changing [G] cars in Memphis, [D] Tennessee,
_ _ _ Halfway home [A] we'll be there [D] by morning,
_ [Bm] Through the Mississippi darkness [A] rolling [D] down the sea,
_ _ [Bm] But the towns and people [F#m] seem to fade into a bad [A] dream,
And the steel rail still ain't [E] heard the news,
_ But [Bm] I'd love to sing your songs again,
[F#m] And passengers will please refrain,
[A] This train has got the disappearing railroad [D] blues.
_ [B] _ _ [G] _ [A] America how [D] are you,
_ [Bm] Say don't you know me, [G] I'm your native [D] son,
_ And the [D] train they [A] call the City of New Orleans,
_ [E] And I'll be gone [G] five [A] hundred miles when the [D] day is done.
_ And I'll be gone [B] five hundred miles [D] when the day is done.
_ And I'll be gone five [A] hundred miles _ _ _ when the day _ _ [G]
is [D] done.
_ And I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. _ _