Key: :[D#] (w: Steve Goodman, 1970)

VERSE 1:
[D#] Riding on the [A#] City of New [D#] Orleans
[Cm] Illinois Central [G#] Monday morning [D#] rail
[D#] Fifteen cars and [A#] fifteen restless [D#] riders
Three con-[Cm]-ductors and [A#] twenty-five sacks of [D#] mail

PRE-CHORUS 1:
All a-[Cm]-long the south bound odyssey
The [Gm] train pulls out of Kenkakee
[A#] Rolls along past houses, farms and [F] fields
[Cm] Passing trains that have no name
[Gm] Freight yards full of old black men
And the [A#] graveyards of [A#7] rusted automob-[D#]-iles

CHORUS:
[G#] Good morning A-[A#]-merica, how [D#] are you?
Say, [Cm] don't you know me, [G#] I'm your native [D#] son [A#7]
I'm the [D#] train they call the [A#] City of New [Cm] Orleans [Cm/A#] [F/A]
I'll be [C#5] gone five [C#5/C] hundred [A#7] miles, when the day is [D#] done

VERSE 2:
Dealing card [D#] games with the [A#] old men in the [D#] club car
[Cm] Penny a point ain't [G#] no one keeping [D#] score
[D#] Pass the paper [A#] bag that holds the [D#] bottle
[Cm] Feel the wheels [A#] rumbling 'neath the [D#] floor

PRE-CHORUS 2:
And the [Cm] sons of Pullman porters and the [Gm] sons of engineers
Ride their [A#] father's magic carpets made of [F] steel
[Cm] Mothers with their babes asleep [Gm] rocking to the gentle beat
And the [A#] rhythm of the rails is [A#7] all they [D#] feel

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VERSE 3:
[D#] Nightime on the [A#] City of New [D#] Orleans
[Cm] Changing cars in [G#] Memphis Tennes-[D#]-see
[D#] Half way home [A#] we'll be there by [D#] morning
Through the [Cm] Mississippi darkness [A#] rolling down to the [D#] sea

PRE-CHORUS 3:
But [Cm] all the towns and people
Seem to [Gm] fade into a bad dream
And the [A#] steel rail still ain't heard the [F] news
The con-[Cm]-ductor sings his songs again
The [Gm] passengers will please refrain
This [A#] train got the disappearing [A#7] railroad [D#] blues

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