City Of New Orleans chords by Johnny Cash

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

if you want to take the easy way out, you can just put a capo on the 3rd fret and play
chords for Arlo Guthrie's version. it sounds like thats what Cash did, but sang an octive

here are the bar chords (i think, i am still learning)if you don't feel like messing
a capo:


 Bb majorBb  FF   G minorGm  D#D#  DmDm   C majorC   F7F7  G7G7   E#E# (?)
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--------------|

Song: City of New Orleans

written by: Steve Goodman

as performed by: Johnny Cash

Bb majorBb       FF    Bb majorBb
Riding on the City of New Orleans

G minorGm        D#D#       Bb majorBb
Illinois Central Monday morning rail

Bb majorBb        FF        Bb majorBb
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders

G minorGm          FF          Bb majorBb
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.

G minorGm                 DmDm
All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee

FF                 C majorC
Rolls along past houses farms and fields

G minorGm                 DmDm
Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men

FF         F7F7      Bb majorBb
And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

	Chorus:

    D#D#      E#E#   Bb majorBb
    Good morning America, how are you?

    G minorGm           D#D#        Bb majorBb
	Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.

    Bb majorBb             FF       G minorGm  G7G7
    I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans

         D#D#         E#E#          Bb majorBb
    I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Verse:

Bb majorBb              FF         Bb majorBb
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car

G minorGm        D#D#         Bb majorBb
Penny a point ain't noone keeping score

Bb majorBb       FF        Bb majorBb
Pass the paper bag but hold the bottle

G minorGm       FF          Bb majorBb
Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor

G minorGm                    DmDm
And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineers

FF                     C majorC
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel

G minorGm                 DmDm
Mother with her babes asleep, rocking to the gentle beat

FF           F7F7         Bb majorBb
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.


	::Chorus::

Bb majorBb       FF        Bb majorBb
Nightime on the City of New Orleans

G minorGm       D#D#        Bb majorBb
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee

Bb majorBb       FF          Bb majorBb
Half way home we'll be there by morning

G minorGm           FF              Bb majorBb
through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.

G minorGm              DmDm
and all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream

FF                    C majorC
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news

G minorGm                  DmDm
The conductor sings his songs again, the passagers will please refrain

FF           F7F7          Bb majorBb
This train got the disappearing railroad blues.


	Chorus:

    D#D#      E#E#     Bb majorBb
    Good night America, How are you?

    G minorGm           D#D#        Bb majorBb
    Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.

    Bb majorBb              FF       G minorGm  G7G7
    I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans

        D#D#         E#E#          Bb majorBb
    I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.