City of New Orleans
Willie Nelson

Submitted By Tiny Man
kellymark@rogers.com

[Into]  D

  D               A             D       Bm                      G                    D
  Riding on the City of New Orleans_____ Illinois Central Monday morning rail
  D                   A                D     Bm                               A
  Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders ______three conductors and twenty-
                         D         Bm                                       F#m
  Five sacks of mail. All along the south bound odyssey, the train _____
                                         A                                         E
  Pulls out of Kankakee Rolls along past houses farms and fields
   Bm                                      F#m
  Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men
         A                A7         D
   And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

[Chorus]
G                 A                D                Bm                   G                 D     A7
Good morning America, How are you? Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. ______
D                               A      Bm            Bm7                    G              A                A9
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans_________ I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day
    D x2
Is done.


D                                   A                D        Bm
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car ______Penny a point Ain't
G                  D                        A                    D
No one keeping score Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Bm                       A                      D               Bm
_____Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor And the sons of Pullman porters
            F#m                            A                                    E
And the sons of engineers Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Bm                                 F#m                                    A
Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat and the rhythm of
       A7               D
The rails are all they feel.




[Chorus]
G                 A                D                Bm                   G                 D     A7
Good morning America, How are you? Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. ______
D                               A      Bm            Bm7                    G              A                A9
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans_________ I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day
    D x2
Is done.



[Solo]    G    A    D    Bm    G   D   A7
                  D    A    Bm      Bm7   G   A   A9  D




D                    A              D      Bm                         G                D
Nighttime on the City of New Orleans_____ Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
D                        A            D          Bm
Half way home we'll be there by morning ______through the Mississippi
                 A                      D          Bm
Darkness rolling down to the sea.  But all the towns and people seem
F#m                                       A                                 E
To fade into a dark dream And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
Bm                                          F#m
The conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrain
       A              A7                       D
This train got the disappearing railroad blues.


[Chorus]
G                 A                D                Bm                   G                 D     A7
Good morning America, How are you? Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. ______
D                               A      Bm            Bm7                    G              A                A9
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans_________ I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day
    D x2
Is done.


[Ending]    D    A    D   Bm    G   D  Start to Fade  D   A   D