TITLE = City Of New Orleans CATEGORY = Rock Artist=Arlo Guthrie Speed = Text1 Beats = 4 Measures = 2 Font = 40 NOTE = ZZZZ126 -1/2 for CD G Intro... 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 All along the south bound odyssey Bm The train pulls out of Kenkakee D A Rolls along past houses farms and fields Em Passing trains that have no name Bm Freight yards of full old black men D D7 G And graveyards of rusted automobiles. C D7 G Good morning America, how are you? Em Say, don't you know me C G D7 D9 I'm your native son. G I'm the train they call D Em Em7 A7 The City of New Orleans Bb C D I'll be gone five hundred miles D9 G When the day is done. G Dealing card games D G 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 but hold the bottle Em D G Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor Em And the sons of Pullman porters Bm And the sons of engineers D Ride their father's A Magic carpets made of steel Em Mother with her babes asleep Bm Are rocking to the gentle beat D D7 And the rhythm of the rails G Is all they feel. C D7 G Good morning America, how are you? Em Say, don't you know me C G D7 D9 I'm your native son. G I'm the train they call D Em Em7 A7 The City of New Orleans Bb C D I'll be gone five hundred miles D9 G When the day is done. 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 Through the Mississippi darkness G Rolling down to the sea. Em But all the towns and people seem Bm To fade into a dark dream D And the steel rail A Still ain't heard the news Em The conductor sings his songs again Bm The passengers will please refrain D D7 G This train got the disappearing railroad blues. C D7 G Good night America, how are you? Em Say, don't you know me C G D7 D9 I'm your native son. G I'm the train they call D Em Em7 A7 The City of New Orleans Bb C D I'll be gone five hundred miles D9 G When the day is done.