Arlo Guthrie, City Of New Orleans (1972)
^{Key: :[G] (w: Steve Goodman, 1970)}

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

PRE-CHORUS 1:
All a-[Em]-long the south bound odyssey
The [Bm] train pulls out of Kenkakee
[D] Rolls along past houses, farms and [A] fields
[Em] Passing trains that have no name
[Bm] Freight yards full of old black men
And the [D] graveyards of [D7] rusted automob-[G]-iles

CHORUS:
[C] Good morning A-[D]-merica, how [G] are you?
Say, [Em] don't you know me, [C] I'm your native [G] son [D7]
I'm the [G] train they call the [D] City of New [Em] Orleans [Em/D] [A/C#]
I'll be [F5] gone five [F5/E] hundred [D7] miles, when the day is [G] done

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