Willie Nelson - City of New Orleans guitar chord

City of New Orleans

Willie Nelson

Submitted By Tiny Man

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Riding on the City of New Orleans_____ Illinois Central Monday morning rail

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Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders ______three conductors and twenty-

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Five sacks of mail. All along the south bound odyssey, the train _____

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Pulls out of Kankakee Rolls along past houses farms and fields

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

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And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

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Good morning America, How are you? Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. ______

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I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans_________ I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day

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Is done.

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Dealing card games with the old men in the club car ______Penny a point Ain't

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No one keeping score Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle

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_____Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor And the sons of Pullman porters

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And the sons of engineers Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel

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Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat and the rhythm of

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The rails are all they feel.

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Good morning America, How are you? Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. ______

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I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans_________ I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day

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Is done.

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Nighttime on the City of New Orleans_____ Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee

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Half way home we'll be there by morning ______through the Mississippi

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Darkness rolling down to the sea. But all the towns and people seem

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To fade into a dark dream And the steel rail still ain't heard the news

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

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This train got the disappearing railroad blues.

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Good morning America, How are you? Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. ______

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I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans_________ I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day

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Is done.

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