City of New Orleans
Arlo Guthrie

Submitted By Tiny man

Capo 4th fret

[Into]  D

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  Riding on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central Monday morning rail
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  Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors and twenty-
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  Five sacks of mail.   All along the south bound odyssey, the train
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  Pulls out of Kankakee Rolls along past houses farms and fields
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  Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men
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  And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

[Chorus]
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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.

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Dealing card games with the old men in the club car Penny a point Ain?t
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No one keeping score Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
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Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor And the sons of Pullman porters
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And the sons of engineers Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
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Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat and the rhythm of
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The rails are all they feel.

[Chorus]
G          A7              D
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.


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Nighttime on the City of New Orleans Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
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Half way home we'll be there by morning through the Mississippi
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Darkness rolling down to the sea.  But all the towns and people seem
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To fade into a dark dream And the steel rail still ain?t heard the news
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The conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrain
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This train got the disappearing railroad blues.


[Chorus]
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Good night 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.



[Ending]  D  A  D  Bm  G  D  Fade