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
[Fm] Illinois Central [C#] Monday morning [G#] rail
[G#] Fifteen cars and [D#] fifteen restless [G#] riders
Three con-[Fm]-ductors and [D#] twenty-five sacks of [G#] mail

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

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

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

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

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

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