here are the bar chords (i think, i am still learning)if you don't feel like messing a capo:Bb F Gm D# Dm C F7 G7 F (?) e|-------1-----3-----------5------------1-----3--------------| B|-3-----1-----3-----8-----6------5-----4-----6------10------| G|-3-----2-----3-----8-----7------5-----2-----4------10------| D|-3-----3-----5-----8-----7------5-----1-----3------10------| A|-1-----3-----5-----6-----5------3-----3-----5------8-------| E|-------1-----3------------------------1-----3--------------|Bb F Bb Riding on the City of New OrleansGm D# Bb Illinois Central Monday morning railBb F Bb Fifteen cars and fifteen restless ridersGm F Bb Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.Gm Dm All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of KenkakeeF C Rolls along past houses farms and fieldsGm Dm Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black menF F7 Bb And graveyards of rusted automobiles. Chorus:D# F Bb Good morning America, how are you?Gm D# Bb Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.Bb F Gm G7 I'm a train they call the City of New OrleansD# F Bb I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. Verse:Bb F Bb Dealing card games with the old men in the club carGm D# Bb Penny a point ain't noone keeping scoreBb F Bb Pass the paper bag but hold the bottleGm F Bb Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floorGm Dm And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineersF C Ride their father's magic carpets made of steelGm Dm Mother with her babes asleep, rocking to the gentle beatF F7 Bb And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel. ::Chorus::Bb F Bb Nightime on the City of New OrleansGm D# Bb Changing cars in Memphis, TennesseeBb F Bb Half way home we'll be there by morningGm F Bb through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.Gm Dm and all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dreamF C And the steel rail still ain't heard the newsGm Dm The conductor sings his songs again, the passagers will please refrainF F7 Bb This train got the disappearing railroad blues. Chorus:D# F Bb Good night America, How are you?Gm D# Bb Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.Bb F Gm G7 I'm the train they call the City of New OrleansD# F Bb I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
City Of New Orleans
Johnny Cash
- Bb
- C
- D#3
- Dm
- F
- F7
- G7
- Gm
Tom: