City Of New Orleans

City Of New Orleans easy guitar chords by Arlo Guthrie

1971Country
Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 6

Capo

Transpose

0

Capo
  • C

  • G

  • Am

  • F

  • Em

  • D

  • Bb

  • C

  • G

  • Am

  • F

  • Em

  • D

  • Bb

  • Intro 1

    Verse 1
    Riding 
    on 
    the 
    City 
    of 
    New 
    Orleans 

    Illinois 
    Central 
    Monday 
    morning 
    rail 

    Fifteen 
    cars 
    and 
    fifteen 
    restless 
    riders 

    Three 
    con
    ductors 

    and 
    twenty-five 
    sacks 
    of 
    mail 

    Pre-chorus 1
    All 
    a
    long 
    the 
    southbound 
    odyssey 

    The 
    train 
    pulls 
    out 
    at 
    Kankakee 

    Rolls 
    along 
    past 
    houses, 
    farms 
    and 
    fields 

    Passin' 
    trains 
    that 
    have 
    no 
    names 

    Freight 
    yards 
    full 
    of 
    old 
    black 
    men 

    And 
    the 
    graveyards 
    of 
    the 
    rusted 
    automo
    biles 

    Chorus 1
    Good 
    morning 
    A
    merica 
    how 
    are 
    you? 

    Said 
    don't 
    you 
    know 
    me 
    I'm 
    your 
    native 
    son 

    I'm 
    the 
    train 
    they 
    call 

    The 
    City 
    of 
    New 
    Orleans 

    I'll 
    be 
    gone 
    five 
    hundred 
    miles 

    when 
    the 
    day 
    is 
    done 

    Verse 2
    Dealin' 
    card 
    games 
    with 
    the 
    old 
    men 

    in 
    the 
    club 
    cars 

    Penny 
    point 
    ain't 
    no 
    one 
    keepin' 
    score 

    Pass 
    the 
    paper 
    bag 
    that 
    holds 
    the 
    bottle 

    Feel 
    the 
    wheels 
    rumblin' 
    'neath 
    the 
    floor 

    Pre-chorus 2
    And 
    the 
    sons 
    of 
    Pullman 
    porters 

    And 
    the 
    sons 
    of 
    engineers 

    Ride 
    their 
    father's 
    magic 
    carpets 
    made 
    of 
    steel 

    Mothers 
    with 
    their 
    babes 
    asleep 

    Are 
    rockin' 
    to 
    the 
    gentle 
    beat 

    And 
    the 
    rhythm 
    of 
    the 
    rails 
    is 
    all 
    they 
    feel 

    Chorus 2
    Good 
    morning 
    A
    merica 
    how 
    are 
    you? 

    Said 
    don't 
    you 
    know 
    me 
    I'm 
    your 
    native 
    son 

    I'm 
    the 
    train 
    they 
    call 

    The 
    City 
    of 
    New 
    Orleans 

    I'll 
    be 
    gone 
    five 
    hundred 
    miles 

    when 
    the 
    day 
    is 
    done 

    Verse 3
    Nighttime 
    on 
    The 
    City 
    of 
    New 
    Orleans 

    Changing 
    cars 
    in 
    Memphis, 
    Tennes
    see 

    Half 
    way 
    home, 
    we'll 
    be 
    there 
    by 
    morning 

    Through 
    the 
    Mississippi 
    darkness 

    Rolling 
    down 
    to 
    the 
    sea 

    Pre-chorus 3
    But 
    all 
    the 
    towns 
    and 
    people 
    seem 

    To 
    fade 
    into 
    bad 
    dream 

    And 
    the 
    steel 
    rails 
    still 
    ain't 
    heard 
    the 
    news 

    The 
    con
    ductor 
    sings 
    his 
    songs 
    again 

    The 
    passengers 
    will 
    please 
    refrain 

    This 
    train 
    got 
    the 
    disappearing 
    railroad 
    blues 

    Chorus 3
    Good 
    night, 
    A
    merica 
    how 
    are 
    you? 

    Said 
    don't 
    you 
    know 
    me 
    I'm 
    your 
    native 
    son 

    I'm 
    the 
    train 
    they 
    call 

    The 
    City 
    of 
    New 
    Orleans 

    I'll 
    be 
    gone 
    five 
    hundred 
    miles 

    when 
    the 
    day 
    is 
    done 

    Outro 1



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