City Of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie | Guitar Chords | VChords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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F#              C#          F#
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 and twenty five sacks of mail
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 All along the southbound odyssey
    A#m
The train pulls out at Kankakee
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Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
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Passin' 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 rusted automobiles

[Chorus (1)]
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B             C#         F#
Good morning America how are you?
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Say don't you know me I'm your native son
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I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans
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    I'll be gone  five hundred miles when the day is done

[Verse 2]
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Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car
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Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score
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Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
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Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor
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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 carpets made of steel
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Mothers with their babes asleep
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Are rockin' to the gentle beat
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And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel



[Verse 3]
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F#               C#            F#
Nighttime 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
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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
    A#m
The passengers will please refrain
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This train's got the disappearing railroad blues

[Chorus (2)]
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B            C#          F#
Good night, America, how are you?
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Say don't you know me I'm your native son
C#      F#                  C#            D#m  D#m/C#
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans
G#/C            E     D#m          C#               F#
    I'll be gone  five hundred miles when the day is done

[Fade Out]
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B  | F#