City Of New Orleans chords by Ryan Bingham

Chords with lyrics

Capo 2
the last line of the chorus is a walk down with the ring finger from the 3rd to second
fret on the a string,
then finish with the a chord.


D MajorD       A augmentedA    D MajorD
Riding on the City of New Orleans
B minorBm        G+G       D MajorD  A augmentedA
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
D MajorD        A augmentedA        D MajorD
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
B minorBm          A augmentedA          D MajorD
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.

   B minorBm                F# minorF#m
All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee
A augmentedA                 E MajorE
Rolls along past houses farms and fields
B minorBm                F# minorF#m
Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men
  A augmentedA       A7A7      D MajorD
And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

G+G      A augmentedA      D MajorD
Good morning America, how are you?
   B minorBm         G+G        D MajorD
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
A7A7   D MajorD          A augmentedA    B minorBm     E7E7
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
    C majorC     G+G    A augmentedA           D MajorD
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

    D MajorD          A augmentedA       D MajorD
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car
B minorBm         G+G       D MajorD  A augmentedA
Penny a point ain't no one keeping score
D MajorD           A augmentedA    D MajorD
Pass the paper bag but hold the bottle
B minorBm       A augmentedA          D MajorD
Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor

    B minorBm               F# minorF#m
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
A augmentedA                     E MajorE
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
B minorBm              F# minorF#m
Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat
    A augmentedA       A7A7        D MajorD
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

G+G      A augmentedA      D MajorD
Good morning America, how are you?
   B minorBm         G+G        D MajorD
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
A7A7   D MajorD          A augmentedA    B minorBm     E7E7
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
    C majorC     G+G    A augmentedA           D MajorD
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

D MajorD         A augmentedA    D MajorD
Night time on the City of New Orleans
B minorBm        G+G       D MajorD  A augmentedA
Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
D MajorD      A augmentedA         D MajorD
Halfway home we'll be there by morning
      B minorBm          A augmentedA          D MajorD
through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.

  B minorBm                F# minorF#m
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a dark dream
    A augmentedA                E MajorE
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
  B minorBm                  F# minorF#m
The conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrain
   A augmentedA         A7A7        D MajorD
This train got the disappearing railroad blues.

G+G      A augmentedA      D MajorD
Good morning America, how are you?
   B minorBm         G+G        D MajorD
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
A7A7   D MajorD          A augmentedA    B minorBm     E7E7
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
    C majorC     G+G    A augmentedA           D MajorD
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.