Chords for The Highwaymen - City Of New Orleans

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_ _ _ _ _ Riding _ [A] along the city of New [D] Orleans, _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] the Illinois sector.
_ [G] _ Monday morning [D] rail, _
_ _ _ _ _ 15 cars [A] and 15 restless [D] riders, _ _
_ _ _ three [Bm] _ _
conductors, [A] 25 sacks of [D] mail. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] All along the southbound Odyssey,
the [F#m] train pulls out from Kankakee
and [A] rolls along past houses, farms [E] and fields. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Passing trains that have no name,
and [F#m] graveyards filled with old black men,
and the [A] _
graveyards of the rusty _ [D] automobile. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Good _ morning!
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Hey, don't you know me?
[G] I'm your native [D] son.
_ _ [A] _ _ I'm [D] the train they call
[A] the City [Bm] of New _ Orleans.
[E] _ _ I'll [C] be gone [G] 500 _ [A] miles
when the day [D] is done. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Stealing cars with the [A] old man in the club [D] car. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Penny a point,
there ain't [G] no one keeping [D] score. _
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Past the paper [A] bag that holds the bottle,
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] field of weeds,
_ [A] rumbling beneath the floor.
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_ _ _ _ And [Bm] the sons of full-on _ hoarders,
[F#m] and the sons of engineers,
_ ride [A] their fathers' magic carpet made [E] of steel.
_ _ _ _ And [Bm] mothers wouldn't bathe or sleep,
_ _ [F#m] rock hands with the tenor beat,
and [A] the rhythm of the rail is all [D] they feel.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Good morning!
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Hey, don't you know [G] me?
I'm your native [D] son.
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_ The [A] City of [Bm] New [A] Orleans.
[E] I'll _ be [C] gone [G] 500 [A] miles
when the day [D] is _ done.
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_ _ _ Nighttime _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] on the City of New Orleans.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Changing cars in [G] Memphis, Tennessee.
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Halfway [A] home, we'll be there by [D] morning.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] With the Mississippi dark
[A] rolling down [D] to the sea.
_ _ _ _ But [Bm] the town _ _ people seem to [F#m] just fade into a bad dream.
And [A] the steel rail still ain't heard [E] the news.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Conductors, send your songs again.
_ [F#m] Passengers, will please refrain.
_ [A] This train has got to disappear in the railroad [D] blue.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Good morning!
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ Hey, don't you know me?
[G] I'm your native [D] son.
The _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] City _ _ [A] _ _ of [Bm] New Orleans.
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ I'll be [C] gone [G] _
[A] 500 miles
when the day is [D] done. _
_ _ _ I'll [C] be gone [G]
500 [A] miles
when the day is [D] done. _
_ _ _ I'll be [C] gone [G]
500 [A] _ _ miles _ _ _
_ _ when the [Am] day _ [D] _
_ _ _ is done. _
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