City of New Orleans chords by Matt Turk
Verse 1
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Riding on the city of New Orleans,
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Illinois
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Central, Monday morning rail
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Fifteen cars and fifteen
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restless riders,
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three conductors,
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twenty -five sacks of mail
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And all along the southbound odyssey,
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the train pulls out of Kankakee
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Rolls along past houses,
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farms and fields
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Passing trains that have no name,
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the freight yards full of old black men
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And the graveyards of
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rusted automobiles
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Good morning America,
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how are you?
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Don't you know me,
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I'm your native son
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I'm the train to call the
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city of New Orleans
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I'll be gone five hundred miles
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when the day is done
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Dealin' cards with men in the club car
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Penny a point,
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ain't no one keepin' score
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Past the paper bag that holds the bottle
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The field wheels rumblin'
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beneath the floor
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And the sons of Pullman porters
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and the sons of engineers
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Ride their father's magic carpet
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made of steel
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Mothers with their babes asleep
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rockin' to the gentle beat
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And the rhythm of the rails
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is all they feel
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Good morning America,
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how are you?
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Don't you know me,
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I'm your native son
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I'll be trained to call the
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city of New Orleans
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I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done
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Nighttime on the city of
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New Orleans
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Changing cars in Memphis,
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Tennessee
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Halfway home and we'll be
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there by the morning
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Through the Mississippi darkness
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rolling down to the sea
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But all the towns and people
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seem to fade into a bad dream
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And the steel rail ain't heard the news
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The conductor sings his song again
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Passengers, refrain
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This train has got to disappear
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in railroads
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Good night, America, how are you?
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Don't you know me,
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I'm your nating son
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I'll be trained to call the
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city of New Orleans
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I'll be gone five hundred miles
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when the day is done
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I'll be gone five hundred miles
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when the day is done
Outro 1
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City of New Orleans
Matt Turk
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