Arlo Guthrie - The City Of New Orleans guitar chord

Arlo Guthrie – The City of New Orleans

Intro: G for 2 bars

G D G

Riding on the City of New Orleans

Em C G

Illinois Central Monday morning rail

G D G

Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders

Em D G

Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail

Em Bm

All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee

D A

Rolls along past houses farms and fields

Em Bm

Passing trains that have no name, freight yards full of old black men

D D7 G

And the graveyards of rusted automobiles………Chorus

Chorus:

C D7 G

Good morning America, how are you? (night @ 3rd chorus)

Em C G D7 D9

Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son

G D Em Em7 A7

I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans

Bb C D D9 G

I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

G D G

Dealing card games with the old men in the club car

Em C G

Penny a point ain't no one keeping score

G D G

Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle

Em D G

Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor

Em Bm

And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers

D A

Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel

Em Bm

Mothers with their babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat

D D7 G

And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel………Chorus

G D G

Nightime on the City of New Orleans

Em C G

Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee

G D G

Half way home we'll be there by morning

Em D G

through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea

Em Bm

But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream

D A

And the steel rail still ain't heard the news

Em Bm

The conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrain

D D7 G

This train got the disappearing railroad blues………Chorus