Chords for Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - City Of New Orleans (Official Audio)

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[F#] Riding on [C#] the city of [F#] New Orleans. _ _
[D#m] Illinois [B] Central, Monday [F#] morning rail. _ _
Fifteen [C#] cars and fifteen [F#] restless riders. _
[D#m] Three [C#] conductors and twenty-five [F#] sacks of mail. _
[D#m] All along the southbound Odyssey,
[A#m] train pulls out, it can't go [C#] deep.
World's a long past house, [G#] hedge farms, and fields. _
[D#m] Passing parades that have [A#m] no names.
The graveyard's full of old [C#] black men.
In the graveyards of the rusted [F#] automobile. _ _
[B] Good morning, I'm out.
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[D#m] I said, don't you [B] know me?
I'm [F#] your native son.
I'm a train [C#] maker on the city [D#m] of New [C#] Orleans.
[B] I'll be gone for a [C#] hundred miles when the [F#] day is done. _
Dealing [C#] cards with the old [F#] men in the club car. _
[D#m] Pay your [Bm] foreign aid, no one [F#] keeps it secure. _
Pass a [C#] paper bag that [F#] holds a bottle. _
[D#m] Steel [C#] wheels rumbling [F#] beneath the floor. _
[D#m] And the sons of Pullman porters [A#] and the sons of engineers
[C#] ride their fathers' magic carpets [G#] made of steel. _ _
[D#m] Mothers with their babes [A#] asleep rockin' to the channel [C#] beat.
And the rhythm of the rails is all [F#] that they feel. _
[B] Good morning, [C#] America, [F#] how are ya?
I [D#m] said, don't you know me?
I'm your [F#] native son.
I'm a train maker [C#] on the city of [D#] New Orleans.
_ [C] I'll [B] be gone for a hundred [C#] miles when the day [F#] is done. _ _
[C#] Good morning, [C#m] _ _ [F#] America, how are ya? _
[D#m] I said, don't you know [B] me?
I'm your [F#] native son. _
I'm a train [C#m] maker on the city [D#m] of New Orleans. _
[B] I'll be gone for a hundred [C#] miles when the day [F#] is done. _
[B] Good night, [C#] America, [F#] how are ya?
I [D#m] said, don't you know [B] me?
I'm your [F#] native son. _ _
[C#] I'm a train maker [C#] on the city of New Orleans.
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[B] I'll be gone for a hundred miles [C#] when the [F#] day is done.
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