City Of New Orleans Chords

Song: City of New Orleans
Written By: Steve Goodman
As Performed By: Johnny Cash
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwyjs4ta7Q8
 
Capo 3
 
   G    D7     Em    C     D     A     G7     F
e|-3-----2-----0-----0-----2-----0------1-----1------1--|
B|-0-----1-----0-----1-----3-----2------0-----1------1--|
G|-0-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2------0-----2--or--2--|
D|-0-----0-----2-----2-----0-----2------0-----3------3--|
A|-2-----------2-----3-----------0------2-----3---------|
E|-3-----------0------------------------3-----1---------|
 
 
[Verse 1]
G             D7          G
Riding on the City of New Orleans
Em                C             G
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
G                D7                G       Em
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
G                    D7                    G
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
Em
All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee
D                                 A
Rolls along past houses farms and fields
Em
Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men
      D           D7           G        G7
And graveyards of rusted automobiles.
 
 
[Chorus]
C            D7           G
Good morning America, how are you?
     Em                 C               G
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
        G                 D7             G
I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans
        F        C        D7                    G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
 
 
[Verse 2]
G                           D7              G
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car
Em             C                 G
Penny a point nobody's keeping score
         G              D7                G          Em
Hey now pass the paper bag but hold the bottle
G               D7                    G
Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor
Em
And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineers
        D                                  A
Ride their daddies' magic carpets made of steel
Em
Mothers with their babes asleep, rocking to the gentle beat
         D             D7                 G          G7
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.
 
 
[Chorus]
C            D7           G
Good morning America, how are you?
     Em                 C               G
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
        G                 D7             G
I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans
        F        C        D7                    G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
 
 
[Verse 3]
G               D7              G
Nightime on the City of New Orleans
Em                C              G
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
G              D7               G         Em
Half way home we'll be there by morning
             G                    D7                 G
through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.
Em
and all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
D                                        A
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
Em
The conductor sings his songs again, the passagers will please refrain
     D                D7                   G      G7
This train got the disappearing railroad blues.
 
 
[Chorus]
C            D7           G
Good morning America, how are you?
     Em                 C               G
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
        G                 D7             G
I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans
        F        C        D7                    G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
         F        C        D7                    G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
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