Chords for JUDY COLLINS - "City Of New Orleans" Live in Concert June 2000

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[C] _ _ _ _ Riding [G] on the city [C] of New Orleans, _ _ [Am] Illinois [F] Central, Monday [C] morning red.
[G] _ _ [C] Fifteen [G] cars and fifteen restless riders, their three [Am] conductors and twenty-five sacks [C] of maid.
_ [Am] On the southbound Odyssey, [Bm] that train pulls out a candy cane, [G] rolls along past houses,
[D] farms and _ fields.
[Am] Passing trains [A] that have no [Em] name, freight yards full of old [G] black men in the graveyards
of the rusted _
[C] automobiles.
_ [F] Good morning, [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Am] don't you know [F] me, I'm your [C] native son.
[G] I'm the train they call [G] the city of [Am] New Orleans.
_ [Bb] I'll become files [G] when the day [C] is done.
_ _ Playing [Em] cards with the old men [C] in the club car.
It's [Am] just a penny, a point, [F] there ain't no one [C] keeping score.
[G] _ _ [C] Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle, and you can [Am] feel the [G] wheels rumbling beneath
[C] the floor.
_ [Am] And sons of Pullman porters and [Bm] the sons of engineers, [G] ride their fathers magic carpet and [D] steal.
_ _ [Am] Mothers with their babes asleep, [Em] rockin' to the gentle beat.
[G] The rhythm of their hands is [C] all they feel.
Let me hear you now.
[F] Good morning, [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Am] don't you [F] know me, I'm your [C] native son.
_ I'm the train they [G] call the city [Am] of New Orleans.
[Bb] I'll become files [G] _
[C] when the day is done.
Let me hear from Eric Weisberg.
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Whoa, [C] let me hear that.
_ [Am] Russell Walden.
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[C] He's something else.
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[D] _ _ Yeah, I get [Am] it. _ _ _
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Oh.
_ _ _ [Em] Nighttime on the city [C] of New Orleans.
We're [Am] changing [F] cars in Memphis, [C] Tennessee.
_ [G] _ [C] We're halfway [G] home and we'll be [C] there by morning.
Through the [Am] Mississippi darkness, [G] rolling [C] down to the sea.
_ [Am] And the towns and people seem [Em] to change into a bad [G] dream.
Those steel [D] rails still ain't [A] heard the news.
[Am] The conductor sings his songs [Em] again.
Constantus, please refrain.
[G] This train got the disappearing [C] for _ _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] you.
Don't you know me, [Am] don't you know [F] me, I'm your [C] native son.
[G] I'm [C] the train they [G] call the city of [Am] New Orleans.
I'll become _ [G] files when the [C] day is done.
_ [Bb] I'll become the _ [C] race is run.
[Bb] I'll become.
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