City Of New Orleans Chords by Sammi Smith

_ _ _ Whoo! _ _ _
Riding [E] on the city [A] of New Orleans _ _
[F#m] Illinois Central Monday [A] morning rail _
There's 15 [E] cars and 15 [A] restless riders _
[F#m] 3 conductors [E] and 25 [A] sacks of mail _
[F#m] Out on the southbound [C#m] odyssey
The train pulls out at [E] Kankakee
Rolling past the houses, [B] farms and fields _
[F#m] And passing towns that have no [C#m] names
The freight yards full of old black [E] men
And the graveyards of the rusted [A] automobiles
Well [D] good morning!
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[F#m] I said don't you [D] know me?
I'm [A] your native son
[E] _
[A] I'm the train, [E] the car
The city [F#m] of New [B] Orleans
[G] I'll be gone [E] 500 miles when [A] the day is done _ _
_ _ _ Dealing cards [E] with the old [A] men in the club car
_ _ [F#m] Penny of [D] point, ain't no [A] one keeping score
_ _ Past the [E] paper bag that [A] holds the bottle
_ [F#m] And feel the wheels [E] rumbling [A] near the floor
_ [F#m] And the sons of Pullman porters
[C#m] And the sons of engineers
[E] Write their fathers magic carpets [B] made of steel
_ [F#m] And mothers with their babes asleep
[C#m] _ Rocking to the gentle beat
[E] The rhythm of the rail is [A] all they hear
Well [D] good [Em] morning! _
[A] _ _ _ [F#m] I said don't you [D] know me?
I'm your [A] native son
[E] _ [A] I'm the train, the [E] car
The city [F#m] of New Orleans
[B] _ [G] I'll be gone [E] 500 miles when the [A] day is done _ _ _ _ _
It's night [E] time on the city [A] of New Orleans _
[F#m] We're changing cars in Memphis, [A] Tennessee _ _ _
Halfway [E] home and we'll be [A] there by morning _
[F#m] Through the Mississippi [E] darkness rolling down [A] to the sea
But [F#m] all the towns and cities seem [C#m] to fade into a bad dream
[E] And the steel rail still ain't heard [B] the news _
[F#m] The conductor sings his songs again
[C#m] The passengers will please refrain
[E] This train got the disappearing [A] railroad blues _ _
[D] Good night!
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