City Of New Orleans Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[C]Riding on the [G]City of New [C]Orleans
[Am]Illinois Central [F]Monday morning [C]rail
Fifteen cars and [G]fifteen restless [C]riders
Three con[Am]ductors
and [G]twenty-five sacks of [C]mail

[Pre-chorus 1]
All a[Am]long the southbound odyssey
The [Em]train pulls out at Kankakee
[G]Rolls along past houses, farms and [D]fields
[Am]Passin' trains that have no names
[Em]Freight yards full of old black men
And the [G]graveyards of the rusted automo[C]biles

[Chorus 1]
[F]Good morning A[G]merica how [C]are you?
Said [Am]don't you know me [F]I'm your native [C]son
[G]I'm the [C]train they call
The [G]City of New [Am]Orleans[D]
I'll be [Bb]gone five hundred [G]miles
when the day is [C]done

[Verse 2]
Dealin' [C]card games with the [G]old men
in the [C]club cars
[Am]Penny a point ain't [F]no one keepin' [C]score
Pass the paper [G]bag that holds the [C]bottle
[Am]Feel the wheels [G]rumblin' 'neath the [C]floor

[Pre-chorus 2]
And the [Am]sons of Pullman porters
And the [Em]sons of engineers
Ride their [G]father's magic carpets made of [D]steel
[Am]Mothers with their babes asleep
Are [Em]rockin' to the gentle beat
And the [G]rhythm of the rails is all they [C]feel

[Chorus 2]
[F]Good morning A[G]merica how [C]are you?
Said [Am]don't you know me [F]I'm your native [C]son
[G]I'm the [C]train they call
The [G]City of New [Am]Orleans[D]
I'll be [Bb]gone five hundred [G]miles
when the day is [C]done

[Verse 3]
[C]Nighttime on The [G]City of New [C]Orleans
[Am]Changing cars in [F]Memphis, Tennes[C]see
Half way home, [G]we'll be there by [C]morning
Through the [Am]Mississippi darkness
[G]Rolling down to the [C]sea

[Pre-chorus 3]
But [Am]all the towns and people seem
To [Em]fade into a bad dream
And the [G]steel rails still ain't heard the [D]news
The con[Am]ductor sings his songs again
The [Em]passengers will please refrain
This [G]train got the disappearing railroad [C]blues

[Chorus 3]
[F]Good night, A[G]merica how [C]are you?
Said [Am]don't you know me [F]I'm your native [C]son
[G]I'm the [C]train they call
The [G]City of New [Am]Orleans[D]
I'll be [Bb]gone five hundred [G]miles
when the day is [C]done

[Outro 1]
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