City Of New Orleans Chords by Johnny Cash

Now here's Mr.
Johnny Cash singing the city of New Orleans.
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_ _ _ _ _ [F] Riding on the city of New Orleans, [Bb] _ _ [Gm] Illinois [Eb] Central, Monday [Bb] morning rail.
_ _ [F] Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders, [Gm] _ [Bb] three conductors, [F] twenty-four sacks of mail.
[Bb] All _ [D] along the southbound Odyssey, [Gm] the train pulls out of [F] Kankakee and moves along past houses, [C] farms and fields.
_ _ [Gm] Passing trains that have no name, switch yards full of old black men, [F] and graveyards full of rusted [Bb] automobiles.
Good _ [Eb] _ [F] morning America, [Bb] how are you?
[Gm] Say, don't you know [Eb] me?
I'm your [Bb] native son.
_ I'm a [F] train they call the city [Bb] of New Orleans.
_ [Ab] I'll be gone five [F] hundred miles when the [Bb] day is done.
_ [F] Dealing card games with an old man [Bb] on the club _ car.
[Gm] Penny a [Eb] point, nobody [Bb] keeping score.
_ Hey, [F] pass a paper bag that [Bb] holds a bottle, [Gm] _ [Bb] and feel the [F] wheels rumbling beneath the floor.
_ [Gm] And the sons of poor men, porters, and the sons of engineers, [F] ride through daddy's magic carpet [C] made of steel.
_ _ [Gm] Mothers with their babes asleep, rocking to that gentle beat, [F] and the rhythm of the rails is all they [Bb] feel.
_ Good [Eb] _ [F] morning America, [Bb] how are you?
[Gm] Say, don't you know me?
I'm your [Bb] native son.
I'm a train [F] they call the city of [Bb] New Orleans.
I'll [Ab] be gone five [F] hundred miles when the day is done.
[Bb] _ _ [F] Night time on the city of [Bb] New Orleans, _ [Gm] changing cars [Eb] in Memphis, [Bb] Tennessee.
_ _ _ Halfway home [F] and we'll be there [Bb] by [Gm] morning, [Bb] through the Mississippi dark, [F] strolling down to [Bb] the sea.
_ _ [Gm] And all the towns and the people seem to fade into a bad dream, [F] and the steel rails still ain't heard [C] the news.
_ _ [Gm] The conductor sings the song again, the passengers will please refrain, [F] this train's got to disappear in railroad [Bb] blue.
_ _ _ [Eb] Good [F] morning America, [Bb] how are you?
_ [Gm] Say, don't you know [Eb] me?
I'm your native [Bb] son.
_ I'm a [F] train they call the city of [Bb] New Orleans.
I'll [Ab] be gone five [F] hundred miles when the [Bb] day is done.
_ I'll be gone five [F] hundred miles when the [Bb] day is done. _ _ _ _ _ _