City Of New Orleans chords by Steve Goodman

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Intermediate

CITY OF NEW ORLEANS 95 BPM


Verse:
 G      D      G    Em       C       G   D
Riding on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central Monday morning rail
 G        D        G
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders.
 Em         D           G
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
 Em              Bm
Out on southbound odyssey, the train pulls out for Kankakee
D                 A
Rollin’ past the houses farms and fields
Em                Bm
Passing towns that have no name, freight yards full of old grey men
  D       D7      G
And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

Chorus:
 C      D7      G
Good morning America, how are you?
   Em        C        G  D7 D9
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native so o  on.
    G         D      Em
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
     Em7   C     D       D9   G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.


Verse:
G           D           G
Dealin’ cards with the old men in the club car
Em            C        G   D
Penny a point there ain't no one keeping score
G       D         G
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
   Em        D         G
I can feel the wheels a-rumbling 'thru the floor.
Em                   Bm
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
      D               A
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Em              Bm
Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat
    D       D7        G
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.


Chorus:
 C      D7      G
Good morning America, how are you?
   Em        C        G  D7 D9
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native so o  on.
    G         D      Em
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
     Em7   C     D       D9   G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.


Verse:
 G       D      G
Nightime on the City of New Orleans
Em        C    G     D
Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
G         D        G
Half way there and we'll be home by morning
      Em          D          G
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.
  Em                Bm
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a dark dark dream
    D                A
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
   Em                 Bm
The conductor sings his song again, The passengers will please refrain…..
   D         D         G
This train got the disappearing railroad blues.


Chorus:
     C     D7       G
And it’s Good night America, How are you?
   Em         C        G   D
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
G              D      G
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
     Em    C    D        D9   G
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.