City Of New Orleans chords by Willie Nelson
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Riding on the City of New Orleans
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Illinois Central, Monday morning rail
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Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
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Three conductors
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and twenty- five sacks of mail
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Pre-chorus 1
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All along the southbound odyssey
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The train pulls out of Kankakee
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And rolls along past houses farms and fields
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Passing trains that have no name
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And freight-yards full of old black men
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And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
Chorus 1
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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 your native son
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I'm the train they call
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the 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
Verse 2
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Dealing cards with the old men in the club car
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Penny a point, ain't no one keeping score
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Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle
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Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor
Pre-chorus 2
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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 fathers' magic carpet made of steel
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Mothers with their babes asleep
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rocking to that gentle beat
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And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Chorus 2
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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 your native son
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I'm the train they call
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the 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
Solo 1
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Verse 3
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Night time on the City of New Orleans
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Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
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Half way home we'll be there by morning
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Through the Mississippi darkness
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rolling down to the sea
Pre-chorus 3
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But all the towns and people seem
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to fade into a bad dream
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And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
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The conductor sings his songs again
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The passengers will please refrain
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This train has got
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the disappearing railroad blues
Chorus 3
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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 your native son
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I'm the train they call
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the 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
Outro 1
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[Fade out]
City Of New Orleans
Willie Nelson
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