City Of New Orleans chords by Arlo Guthrie

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

City of New Orleans chords
Arlo Guthrie / Steve Goodman

G+G       D MajorD    G+G
Riding on the City of New Orleans
E minorEm        C majorC       G+G  D MajorD
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
All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee
D MajorD                 A augmentedA
Rolls along past houses farms and fields
E minorEm                B minorBm
Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men
  D MajorD       D7D7      G+G
And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

C majorC       D7D7     G+G
Good morning America, how are you?

   E minorEm         C majorC        G+G D7D7
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
    G+G          D MajorD    E minorEm     A7A7
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
    FF     C majorC    D MajorD           G+G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealing card games with the old men in the club car
Penny a point ain't no one keeping score
Pass the paper bag but hold the bottle
Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

C majorC       D7D7     G+G
Good morning America, how are you?

   E minorEm         C majorC        G+G D7D7
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
    G+G          D MajorD    E minorEm     A7A7
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
    FF     C majorC    D MajorD           G+G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
Halfway home we'll be there by morning
through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a dark dream
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrain
This train got the disappearing railroad blues.

G+G      D7D7     G+G
Good night America, how are you?
   E minorEm         C majorC        G+G D7D7
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
    G+G          D MajorD    E minorEm     A7A7
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
    FF     C majorC    D MajorD           G+G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

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