City Of New Orleans chords by Johnny Cash

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

if you want to take the easy way out, you can just put a capo on the 3rd fret and play
chords for Arlo Guthrie's version. it sounds like thats what Cash did, but sang an octive

here are the bar chords (i think, i am still learning)if you don't feel like messing
a capo:


 Bb  F   Gm  D#  Dm   C   F7  G7   E# (?)
e-------1-----3-----------5------------1-----3--------------|
B-3-----1-----3-----8-----6------5-----4-----6------10------|
G-3-----2-----3-----8-----7------5-----2-----4------10------|
D-3-----3-----5-----8-----7------5-----1-----3------10------|
A-1-----3-----5-----6-----5------3-----3-----5------8-------|
E-------1-----3------------------------1-----3--------------|

Song: City of New Orleans

written by: Steve Goodman

as performed by: Johnny Cash


Bb       F    Bb
Riding on the City of New Orleans

Gm        D#       Bb
Illinois Central Monday morning rail

Bb        F        Bb
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders

Gm          F          Bb
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.

Gm                 Dm
All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee

F                 C
Rolls along past houses farms and fields

Gm                 Dm
Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men

F         F7      Bb
And graveyards of rusted automobiles.


	Chorus:

    D#      E#   Bb
    Good morning America, how are you?

    Gm           D#        Bb
	Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.

    Bb             F       Gm  G7
    I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans

         D#         E#          Bb
    I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Verse:

Bb              F         Bb
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car

Gm        D#         Bb
Penny a point ain't noone keeping score

Bb       F        Bb
Pass the paper bag but hold the bottle

Gm       F          Bb
Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor

Gm                    Dm
And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineers

F                     C
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel

Gm                 Dm
Mother with her babes asleep, rocking to the gentle beat

F           F7         Bb
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.


	::Chorus::

Bb       F        Bb
Nightime on the City of New Orleans

Gm       D#        Bb
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee

Bb       F          Bb
Half way home we'll be there by morning

Gm           F              Bb
through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.

Gm              Dm
and all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream

F                    C
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news

Gm                  Dm
The conductor sings his songs again, the passagers will please refrain

F           F7          Bb
This train got the disappearing railroad blues.


	Chorus:

    D#      E#     Bb
    Good night America, How are you?

    Gm           D#        Bb
    Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.

    Bb              F       Gm  G7
    I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans

        D#         E#          Bb
    I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.