City Of New Orleans Chords

Title: City of New Orleans
Artist: Steve Goodman
No capo
 
 
[Verse 1]
C               G              C
Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Am                  F                C G
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail,
C                   G               C
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Am                 G                    C
Three conductors, twenty five sacks of mail.
 
[Mid-section]
    Am
All along the southbound odyssey,
    Em
The train pulls out of Kankakee,
    G                                  D
And rolls along the houses, farms and fields.
 
Am
Passing towns that have no name,
    Em
And freight yards full of old black men,
    G                  G7             C
And graveyards of the rusted automobiles.
 
 
[Chorus]
 F               G           C
Good morning America, how are you?
    Am                  F                C
Say don't you know me, I'm your native son.
G         C                 G           Am
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans,
         Bb        F              G              C
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
 
 
[Verse 2]
C                      G                   C
Dealing card with the old men in the club cars,
Am                     F               C    G
A penny a point, ain't no one keeping score.
C                   G               C
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle,
Am                 G                    C
And feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor.
 
[Mid-section]
    Am
And the sons of Pullman porters,
    Em
And the sons of engineers,
           G                               D
Ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steam.
 Am
Mothers with their babes asleep,
 Em
Rocking to the gentle beat,
         G             G7                C
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream.
 
 
[Chorus]
 F               G             C
Good morning America, how are you?
    Am                  F               C
Say don't you know me, I'm your native son.
G         C                  G           Am
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans,
         Bb        F       G                    C
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
 
 
[Verse 3]
C                 G            C
Nighttime on the City of New Orleans,
Am                  F           C   G
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennesee.
C              G                  C
Halfway home, we'll be there by morning,
Am                               G                    C
Through the Misissippi darkness, rolling down to the sea.
 
[Mid-section]
  Am
But all the towns and people seem
   Em
To fade into a bad dream,
      G                               D
The steel rail still ain't heard the news.
    Am
The conductor sings his songs again,
    Em
The passengers will please refrain,
     G                   G7              C
This train's got the disappearin' railroad blues.
 
 
[Chorus]
 F         G            C
Goodnight America, how are you?
    Am                  F               C
Say don't you know me, I'm your native son.
G         C                  G           Am
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans,
         Bb        F       G                    C
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
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