Chords:
{t: City of New Orleans [F] }
{key: F}
{artist:Steve Goodman}
Steve Goodman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4-smXOniqk
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[F] Riding on the [C] City of New [F] Orleans,
[Dm] Illinois Central [Bb] Monday morning [F] rail [C]
[F] There’s fifteen cars and [C] fifteen restless [F] riders,
[Dm] Three conductors and [C] twenty-five sacks of [F] mail.
[Dm] Out on the southbound odyssey and the [Am] train pulls out at Kankakee
[C] Rolls past the houses, farms and [G] fields.
[Dm] Passin' towns that have no names, [Am] and freight yards full of old black men
And the [C] graveyards of the rusted automo-[F]biles [F7]
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Singing [Bb] Good morning [C] America how [F] are you?
[Dm] And don't you know me [Bb] I'm your [C] native [F] son [C]
I'm just the [F] train they call The [C] City of New [F] Orleans,
I'll be [Dm] gone five hundred [F] miles when the [C] day is [F] done. [C]
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I was dealin' [F] cards with the [C] old men in the [F] club car. [C]
[Dm] And it’s penny a point there ain't [Bb] nobody keepin' [F] score. [C]
[F] Pass that paper [C] bag that holds that [Dm] bottle [Dm]
[Bb] You can feel the wheels [C] rumblin' beneath the [F] floor.
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The [Dm] sons of pullman porters and the [Am] sons of engineers
Ride their [C] daddy’s magic carpet – it’s made of [G] steel.
[Dm] Mothers with their babes asleep, go [Am] rockin' to the gentle beat
And the [C] rhythm of the [C7] rails is all they [F] dream. [F7]
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Singing [Bb] Good morning [C] America how [F] are you?
[Dm] And don't you know me [Bb] I'm your [C] native [F] son [C]
I'm just the [F] train they call The [C] City of New [F] Orleans,
I'll be [Dm] gone five hundred [F] miles when the [C] day is [F] done. [C]
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[F] It’s night-time on The [C] City of New [F] Orleans,
[Dm] And we’re changing cars in [Bb] Memphis, Tennes-[F]-see. [C]
[F] Half way home, [C] we'll be there by [F] morning
Through the [Dm] Mississippi darkness [C] rolling to the [F] sea.
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[Dm] All the towns and people seem to [Am] fade into a bad dream
And the [C] old steel rails still ain't heard the [G] news.
The con-[Dm]-ductor sings that song again, the [Am] passengers will please refrain
[C] This train has got the [C7] disappearing railroad [F] blues. [F7]
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Singing [Bb] Good morning [C] America how [F] are you?
[Dm] And don't you know me [Bb] I'm your [C] native [F] son [C]
I'm just the [F] train they call The [C] City of New [F] Orleans,
I'll be [Dm] gone five hundred [F] miles when the [C] day is [F] done. [C]
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Singing [Bb] Good morning [C] America how [F] are you?
[Dm] And don't you know me [Bb] I'm your [C] native [F] son [C]
I'm just the [F] train they call The [C] City of New [F] Orleans,
I'll be [Dm] gone five hundred [F] miles when the [C] day is [F] done. [C]
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[Bb] [C] [F]
