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City Of New Orleans easy guitar chords by
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie

1971Country
4.8 (17)
Intro 1
C
C

Verse 1
C
G
C

Riding on the City of New Orleans
Am
F
C

Illinois Central Monday morning rail
G
C

Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Am

Three conductors
G
C

and twenty-five sacks of mail
Pre-chorus 1
Am

All along the southbound odyssey
Em

The train pulls out at Kankakee
G
D

Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
Am

Passin' trains that have no names
Em

Freight yards full of old black men
G
C

And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
Chorus 1
F
G
C

Good morning America how are you?
Am
F
C

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

I'm the train they call
G
Am
D

The City of New Orleans
Bb
G

I'll be gone five hundred miles
C

when the day is done
Verse 2
C
G

Dealin' card games with the old men
C

in the club cars
Am
F
C

Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
G
C

Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Am
G
C

Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor
Pre-chorus 2
Am

And the sons of Pullman porters
Em

And the sons of engineers
G
D

Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Am

Mothers with their babes asleep
Em

Are rockin' to the gentle beat
G
C

And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Chorus 2
F
G
C

Good morning America how are you?
Am
F
C

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

I'm the train they call
G
Am
D

The City of New Orleans
Bb
G

I'll be gone five hundred miles
C

when the day is done
Verse 3
C
G
C

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans
Am
F
C

Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
G
C

Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Am

Through the Mississippi darkness
G
C

Rolling down to the sea
Pre-chorus 3
Am

But all the towns and people seem
Em

To fade into a bad dream
G
D

And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
Am

The conductor sings his songs again
Em

The passengers will please refrain
G
C

This train got the disappearing railroad blues
Chorus 3
F
G
C

Good night, America how are you?
Am
F
C

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

I'm the train they call
G
Am
D

The City of New Orleans
Bb
G

I'll be gone five hundred miles
C

when the day is done
Outro 1
C
G
C

Am
F
C

C
G
C

[Fade out]

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  • Em

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