City Of New Orleans chords by Steve Goodman

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Intermediate

CITY OF NEW ORLEANS 95 BPM


Verse:
 G+G      D MajorD      G+G    E minorEm       C majorC       G+G   D MajorD
Riding on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central Monday morning rail
 G+G        D MajorD        G+G
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders.
 E minorEm         D MajorD           G+G
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
 E minorEm              B minorBm
Out on southbound odyssey, the train pulls out for Kankakee
D MajorD                 A augmentedA
Rollin’ past the houses farms and fields
E minorEm                B minorBm
Passing towns that have no name, freight yards full of old grey men
  D MajorD       D7D7      G+G
And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

Chorus:
 C majorC      D7D7      G+G
Good morning America, how are you?
   E minorEm        C majorC        G+G  D7D7 D9D9
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native so o  on.
    G+G         D MajorD      E minorEm
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
     E minor 7Em7   C majorC     D MajorD       D9D9   G+G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.


Verse:
G+G           D MajorD           G+G
Dealin’ cards with the old men in the club car
E minorEm            C majorC        G+G   D MajorD
Penny a point there ain't no one keeping score
G+G       D MajorD         G+G
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
   E minorEm        D MajorD         G+G
I can feel the wheels a-rumbling 'thru the floor.
E minorEm                   B minorBm
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
      D MajorD               A augmentedA
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
E minorEm              B minorBm
Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat
    D MajorD       D7D7        G+G
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

Chorus:
 C majorC      D7D7      G+G
Good morning America, how are you?
   E minorEm        C majorC        G+G  D7D7 D9D9
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native so o  on.
    G+G         D MajorD      E minorEm
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
     E minor 7Em7   C majorC     D MajorD       D9D9   G+G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.


Verse:
 G+G       D MajorD      G+G
Nightime on the City of New Orleans
E minorEm        C majorC    G+G     D MajorD
Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
G+G         D MajorD        G+G
Half way there and we'll be home by morning
      E minorEm          D MajorD          G+G
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.
  E minorEm                B minorBm
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a dark dark dream
    D MajorD                A augmentedA
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
   E minorEm                 B minorBm
The conductor sings his song again, The passengers will please refrain…..
   D MajorD         D MajorD         G+G
This train got the disappearing railroad blues.


Chorus:
     C majorC     D7D7       G+G
And it’s Good night America, How are you?
   E minorEm         C majorC        G+G   D MajorD
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
G+G              D MajorD      G+G
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
     E minorEm    C majorC    D MajorD        D9D9   G+G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.