The City Of New Orleans chords by Lynn Anderson

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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 and
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twenty -five sacks of mail
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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 names
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Freight yards full of old black men
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And the graveyards of the
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rusted automobiles
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Good morning America, how are ya?
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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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I'll be gone five hundred miles
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When the day is done
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I see old men playin' poker
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In a club car
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A penny in hand ain't no
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one keepin' score
They pass the paper bag
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that holds the bottle
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And feel the wheels a
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-grumblin' neat the floor
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And the sons of foreman 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 mothers
with their babes asleep
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are rocking to the gentle beat
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and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
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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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I'll be gone five hundred miles
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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 morning
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Through the Mississippi
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darkness rolling down
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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 rails still
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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's got the
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disappearing railroad blues
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Oh, goodnight America, how are you?
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Say, don't you know me?
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I'm your latest son
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I'm the train they call
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the 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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