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

VERSE 1:
[Gb] Riding on the [Db] City of New [Gb] Orleans
[Ebm] Illinois Central [B] Monday morning [Gb] rail
[Gb] Fifteen cars and [Db] fifteen restless [Gb] riders
Three con-[Ebm]-ductors and [Db] twenty-five sacks of [Gb] mail

PRE-CHORUS 1:
All a-[Ebm]-long the south bound odyssey
The [Bbm] train pulls out of Kenkakee
[Db] Rolls along past houses, farms and [Ab] fields
[Ebm] Passing trains that have no name
[Bbm] Freight yards full of old black men
And the [Db] graveyards of [Db7] rusted automob-[Gb]-iles

CHORUS:
[B] Good morning A-[Db]-merica, how [Gb] are you?
Say, [Ebm] don't you know me, [B] I'm your native [Gb] son [Db7]
I'm the [Gb] train they call the [Db] City of New [Ebm] Orleans [Ebm/Db] [Ab/C]
I'll be [E5] gone five [E5/Eb] hundred [Db7] miles, when the day is [Gb] done

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

PRE-CHORUS 2:
And the [Ebm] sons of Pullman porters and the [Bbm] sons of engineers
Ride their [Db] father's magic carpets made of [Ab] steel
[Ebm] Mothers with their babes asleep [Bbm] rocking to the gentle beat
And the [Db] rhythm of the rails is [Db7] all they [Gb] feel

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

PRE-CHORUS 3:
But [Ebm] all the towns and people
Seem to [Bbm] fade into a bad dream
And the [Db] steel rail still ain't heard the [Ab] news
The con-[Ebm]-ductor sings his songs again
The [Bbm] passengers will please refrain
This [Db] train got the disappearing [Db7] railroad [Gb] blues

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