City of New Orleans

City of New Orleans chords
Arlo Guthrie 1972 (Steve Goodman)
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song)  ***
 
Capo IV **
 
[Intro]
 
[C] 
 
{ VERSE } - - - - [C] Riding on the [G] City of [C] New Orleans.  [Am] Illinois Central, [F] Monday morning [C] rail. [G] - - - [C] Fifteen cars and [G] fifteen restless [C] riders,  [Am] three conductors and [G] twenty-five sacks of [C] mail.

All [Am] along the south bound odyssey, the [Em] train pulls out of Kankakee,   [G] rolls along past houses, farms and [D] fields - [Am] passing trains that have no name, [Em] freight yards full of old black men, and the [G] graveyards of the [G7] rusted auto-[C]-mobiles.
 
{ CHORUS } - - - - [F] Good morning [G] America, how [C] are you?   Say, [Am] don't you know me, [F] I'm your native [C] son.  - - - { TAG LINE } - - - [G7] I'm the [C] train they call the [G] City of [Am] New Orleans.  [D7] - - - I'll be [Bb] gone five [F] hundred [G] miles when the [G7] day is [C] done.
 
{ VERSE } - - - - Dealing [C] card games with the [G] old men in the [C] club car.  [Am] Penny a point, ain't [F] no one keeping [C] score. [G] - - - [C] Pass the paper bag that [G] holds the [C] bottle, [Am] feel the wheels [G] rumblin' 'neath the [C] floor.

And the [Am] sons of Pullman porters and the [Em] sons of engineers, [G] ride their fathers' magic carpets made of [D] steel.   [Am] Mothers with their babes asleep, [Em] rockin' to the gentle beat, and the [G] rhythm of the [G7] rails is all they [C] feel.
 
{ CHORUS } - - - - [F] Good morning [G] America, how [C] are you?  - - - { TAG LINE } - - - 
 
{ VERSE } - - - - [C] Night time on the [G] City of [C] New Orleans.  [Am] Changing cars in [F] Memphis, Tenne-[C]-see. [G] - - - [C] Halfway home, [G] we'll be there by [C] morning, through the [Am] Mississippi darkness [G] rolling down to the [C] sea.
 
But [Am] all the towns and people seem to [Em] fade into a bad dream, and the [G] steel rail still ain't heard the [D] news.  The [Am] conductor sings his songs again, the [Em] passengers will please refrain, this [G] train got the disap-[G7]-pearing railroad [C] blues.
 
{ CHORUS } - - - - [F] Good night [G] America, how [C] are you?  Say, [Am] don't you know me, [F] I'm your native [C] son.  - - - { TAG LINE } - - - 
 
*** This version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF1lqEQFVUo
 
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