Intro: G for 2 barsG D G Riding on the City of New OrleansEm C G Illinois Central Monday morning railG D G Fifteen cars and fifteen restless ridersEm D G Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mailEm Bm All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of KenkakeeD A Rolls along past houses farms and fieldsEm Bm Passing trains that have no name, freight yards full of old black menD D7 G And the graveyards of rusted automobiles???Chorus Chorus:C D7 G Good morning America, how are you? (night @ 3rd chorus)Em C G D7 D9 Say, don't you know me, I'm your native sonG D Em Em7 A7 I'm the train they call the City of New OrleansBb C D D9 G I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is doneG D G Dealing card games with the old men in the club carEm C G Penny a point ain't no one keeping scoreG D G Pass the paper bag that holds the bottleEm D G Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floorEm Bm And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineersD A Ride their father's magic carpets made of steelEm Bm Mothers with their babes asleep rocking to the gentle beatD D7 G And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel???ChorusG D G Nightime on the City of New OrleansEm C G Changing cars in Memphis TennesseeG D G Half way home we'll be there by morningEm D G through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the seaEm Bm But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dreamD A And the steel rail still ain't heard the newsEm Bm The conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrainD D7 G This train got the disappearing railroad blues???Chorus
The City Of New Orleans
Arlo Guthrie
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