City Of New Orleans chords by LenneRockets

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Riding on the
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city of New Orleans
Illinois Central,
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Monday morning mail
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Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
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Three conductors and
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twenty -five sacks of man
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All along the southbound odyssey
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The train pulled by a can -can
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Rolled along past houses,
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farms, and fields
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Passing trains that have no names
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And freight yards full of old men
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And the graveyards of the
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rusted automobile
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Good morning, America, how are you?
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Say, don't you know me,
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I'm Bobby Manhattan
I'm the train they call the
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City of New Orleans
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And I'll be gone 500
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miles in a day or so
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Sitting and playing poker in the club car
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Hey boy, ain't no one keepin' score
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Halfway home I'll be there
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by the mornin'
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Through the Mississippi darkness,
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rollin' down to the shore
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And the sons of home importers
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and the sons of engineers
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Write their daddy's magic carpets
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made of steel
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Mothers with their babies sleepin'
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Rockin' to that gentle beat
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The rhythm of the ranch
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is all that they use to know
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Good morning, America, how are ya?
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Say, don't you know me,
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happy native son?
Well, I'm a dreamer called the
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City of New Orleans
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And I'll be gone five hundred miles
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in a day or two
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And the sons of home importers
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And the sons of engineers
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Ride their daddy's magic
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carpets made of steel
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Moms with their babies sleepin'
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Rockin' to the gentle beat
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Well, rhythm of the round
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is all that they feel
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Good morning, America,
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how are you?
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Say, don't you know me,
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I'm your native son
Well, I'm the train they call the
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City of New Orleans
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And I'll be gone five hundred miles
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when the day is done
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Good night America, how are you?
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Say don't you know me,
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I'm your native son
I'm the train that called the
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city of New Orleans
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And I'll be got five hundred miles
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of wind in the sky