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City Of New Orleans Chords by Arlo Guthrie

City Of New Orleans chords by Arlo Guthrie

Guitar chords with lyrics

From gil@asterix.lbl.gov (Gil Rivlis) (J. Robson below)


Anyone has the chords for Black Water by the Doobie Brothers?

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                City of New Orleans (As performed by Arlo Guthrie)
(Who wrote it?) steve goodman

Into:
| G / / / | G / / / |
| G      /      D    /   |  G   / / / |
  Riding on the City of ...
| Em       /       C      /     | G   /   /   /   |
  Illinois Central ...
| G       /        D       /      | G   /   /   / |
  Fifteen cars and fifteen ..
       | Em     /    D           /      | G  /  /  / |
Three conductors and twenty-five ...
  | Em        /           /    /     | Bm          /      /     /   |
All along the south bound odyssey, ...
| D      /         /      /       | A   /   /   /  |
  Rolls along past houses ...
| Em       /          /       /   | Bm      /        /         /   |
  Passing trains that have no name, ...
  | D      /      D7     /    | G    /   /   /   |
And graveyards of ...


Chorus:
| C      /      D7   /   |  G      /    /   /   |
  Good morning America...
                                                         1/2 1/2
   | Em        /        C        /    |  G      /    /   D7  D9   |
Say, don't you know me, I'm ....
      | G          /        D    /    | Em     Em7    A7    /  |
I'm the train they call the ...
      | Bb        C       D              D9    | G    /   /   /   |
I'll be gone five hundred miles when ...



G     3 2 0 0 0 3    (or  3 2 0 0 3 3 or 3 5 5 4 3 3)
D     x x 0 2 3 2    (or  x 5 4 2 3 2)
Em    0 2 2 0 0 0
C     x 3 2 0 1 0    (or  x 3 5 5 5 3)
Bm    x 2 4 4 3 2
A     x 0 2 2 2 0
D7    x x 0 2 1 2    (or  x 5 4 5 3 x)
D9    x x 0 2 1 0
Em7   0 2 0 0 0 0    (or  0 2 2 0 3 0)
A7    x 0 2 0 2 0
Bb    x 1 3 3 3 1

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J@LaffingAcademy.com (J. Robson) says:

the right key for this song is f#

F#  X 4 4 3 2 2
G#  X 6 6 5 4 4
A#m X X 3 3 2 1
B   X X 4 4 4 2
C#  X X 3 1 2 1
D#m X X 4 3 4 1
E   0 2 2 1 0 0

[F#]Riding on the [C#]City of New [F#]Orleans,
[D#m]Illinois Central [B]Monday morning [F#]rail
...
...
All a[D#m]long ...
The [A#m]train ...
[C#]Rolls along past houses, farms and [G#]fields.
[D#m]Passin' ...
[A#m]Freight ..
And the [C#]graveyards of the [B]rusted automo[F#]biles.

CHORUS:
[B]Good morning A[C#]merica how [F#]are you? I said
[D#m]Don't you know me [B]I'm your native [F#]son,
I'm the [F#]train they call The [C#]City of New [F#]Orleans,[F#maj7 F7/B]
I'll be [E]gone five hundred [C#]miles when the day is [F#]done.

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