City Of New Orleans chords by Roch Voisine

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Music & Lyrics: Steve Goodman
Album: America (2008)


Intro:
|D  |D  |D  |D  |

Verse 1:
D       A      D   D
Riding on the City of New Orleans
Bm        G         D  D
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail
D       A        D   D
Fifteen cars, fifteen restless riders
Bm          A           D  D
Three conductors and tweny-five sacks of mail

Verse 2:
   Bm         Bm
All along the southbound odyssey
  F#m        F#m
The train pulls out at Kankakee
A         A       E    E
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
Bm           Bm
Passin' trains that have no names
F#m           F#m
Freight yards full of old black men
       A    A       D  D
And the graveyards of rusted automobiles

Chorus:
G       A      D   D
Good morning America, how are you?
Bm        G         D
Don't you know me, I'm your native son
A      D        A      Bm  A E
 I am the train they call The City of New Orleans
     C    G    A          D
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Instrumental:
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Verse 3:
    D          A         D  D
Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car
Bm         G        D  D
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
D        A         D  D
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Bm       A           D  D
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor

Verse 4:
    Bm        Bm
And the sons of Pullman Porters
     F#m     F#m
And the sons of engineers
      A        A       E  E
Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel
Bm         Bm
Mothers with their babes asleep
  F#m       F#m
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
    A       A         D  D
And the rhythm of the rail is all they feel

Chorus:
G       A      D   D
Good morning America, how are you?
Bm        G         D
Don't you know me, I'm your native son
A      D        A      Bm  A E
 I am the train they call The City of New Orleans
     C    G    A          D  D
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Instrumental:
|G  |D  |D  |D  |
|Bm  |G  |D  |D  |
|D  |A  |Bm A |E  |
|C Bm |A  |D  |D  |
|D  |D  |

Verse 5:
D        A      D   D
Nighttime on the city of New Orleans
 Bm       G        D  D
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
D       A          D  D
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
      Bm
Through the Mississippi darkness
A           D  D
Rolling down to the sea

Verse 6:
Bm         Bm
All the towns and people seem
  F#m      F#m
To fade into a bad dream
     A       A          E  E
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
     Bm       Bm
The conductor sings his song again
  F#m       F#m
The passengers will please refrain
   A           A         D  D
This train has got the disappearing railroad blues

Chorus:
G       A      D   D
Good morning America, how are you?
Bm        G         D
Don't you know me, I'm your native son
A      D        A      Bm A E
 I am the train they call The City of New O___rleans
     C    Bm    A          D  D
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Chorus:
G       A      D   D
Good morning America, how are you?
Bm        G         D
Don't you know me, I'm your native son
A      D        A      Bm A E
 I am the train they call The City of New O___rleans
     C    Bm    A          D  D
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

Outro:
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|Bm  |G  |D  |D  |
|D  |A  |D  |D  |
|Bm  |A  |D  |D  |
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