Chords
City Of New Orleans

Key: G

Introduction:  G   G  

difficulty
intermediate |||||
 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 Kankakee,
   D                         A 
    Rolls along past houses farms and fields,
   Em             Bm 
    Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men
       D                         D7         G 
And the graveyards of rusted automobiles.
   C                   D7           G 
    Good morning, America, how are you?
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         Em                               C                           G                 D7   D9 
Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son.
               G                                   D                 Em         Em7       A7/C# 
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans.
               F               C/E             D                           D9         G 
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car,