City Of New Orleans chords by Steve Goodman

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Intermediate

CITY OF NEW ORLEANS  95 BPM


Verse:
  G            D            G        Em              C              G     D
Riding on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central Monday morning rail
  G                D                G
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders.
 Em                 D                     G
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
 Em                            Bm
Out on southbound odyssey, the train pulls out for Kankakee
D                                  A
Rollin’  past the houses farms and fields
Em                               Bm
Passing towns that have no name, freight yards full of old grey men
    D             D7           G
And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

Chorus:
 C           D7            G
Good morning America, how are you?
     Em                C                G   D7  D9
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native so  o   on.
        G                  D            Em
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
         Em7     C         D             D9      G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.


Verse:
G                      D                     G
Dealin’ cards with the old men in the club car
Em                       C               G      D
Penny a point there ain't no one keeping score
G              D                 G
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
      Em                D                  G
I can feel the wheels a-rumbling 'thru the floor.
Em                                      Bm
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
           D                              A
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Em                            Bm
Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat
        D             D7                G
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.


Chorus:
 C           D7            G
Good morning America, how are you?
     Em                C                G   D7  D9
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native so  o   on.
        G                  D            Em
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
         Em7     C         D             D9      G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.


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


Chorus:
         C         D7             G
And it’s Good night America, How are you?
     Em                 C               G      D
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
G                           D           G
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
         Em       C       D               D9     G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.