Chords for The Highwaymen - City of New Orleans (American Outlaws: Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990)

[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Riding _ [A] on the city of New [D] Orleans, _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] Illinois Central,
_ [G] Monday morning [D] rail, _ _ _ _ _
_ 15 cars [A] and 15 restless [D] riders, _ _ _ _ _
3 [Bm] _ _ conductors [A] and 25 sacks [D] of mail. _ _ _ _ _
All [Bm] along the southbound Odyssey,
[F#m] the train pulls out from _ Kankakee
[A] and rolls along past houses, farms [E] and fields. _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] And passing trains that have no names,
and [F#m] graveyards filled with old black men,
and [A] the _ graveyards of the rusty _ [D] automobile. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] Good _ morning [D] _ [A]
America, [D] how are you? _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] Say, don't you know me?
[G] I'm your native [D] son.
_ _ [A] _ _
I'm [D] the train they call [A] the City of [Bm] New [D] Orleans,
_ [E] _ _
and I'll [C] be gone [G] 500 [A] miles when the day is [D] done. _ _ _
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_ Leaving cars with [A] the old man in the club [D] car, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] any point [G] there ain't no one keeping [D] score. _ _ _ _ _
_ And past the paper [A] bag that holds the [D] bottle, _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] feel the wheels _ [A] rumbling beneath the [D] floor. _ _ _ _ _
And [Bm] the sons of full-time porters,
[F#m] and the sons of engineers, _
ride [A] their fathers' magic carpet made of [E] steel. _ _ _ _
And [Bm] mothers work their babes asleep, _
_ [F#m] rocking _ to the gentle beat,
and [A] the rhythm of the rails is all [D] they feel. _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] Good morning America, [D] how are you? _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] Say, don't you know me?
[G] I'm your native [D] son.
_ _ [A] _ _
I'm [D] the train they call [A] the City of [Bm] New _ [D] _ _ [E] Orleans,
and I'll [C] be gone [G] 500 [A] miles when the day [D] is done. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Nighttime on [A] the City of New Orleans,
[D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ Changing cars [G] in Memphis, Tennessee,
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ halfway _ home [A] we'll be there by [D] morning. _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] Through the Mississippi darkness, [A] rolling down [D] to the sea, _ _ _ _
but [Bm] the _ _ towns and the people seem to [F#m] just fade into a bad dream,
and [A] the steel _ rails still ain't heard [E] the news. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] Conductors sing your songs again,
and [F#m] passengers will please refrain. _
_ [A] This train has got to disappear in railroad [D] blue. _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] Good morning [A] _
America, how [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
are [Bm] you?
Don't you know me?
[G] I'm your native [D] son.
_ _ [A] _ _
I'm [D] the train they call [A] the City of [Bm] New Orleans,
_ _ [E] _
and I'll be [C] gone [G] 500 [A] miles when the day [D] is done. _ _ _
and I'll be [C] gone [G] 500 [A] miles when the day is [D] done. _ _ _
and I'll be [C] gone [Bm] 500 _ [A] miles _ when _ _ _ _ the day _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
is done. _ _ _ _ _
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