City of New Orleans Arlo Guthrie
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS - Arlo Guthrie
Capo on 4th
Intro: D
[D] Riding on the [A] City of [D] New Orleans
[Bm] Illinois Central [G] Monday morning [D] rail [D]
[D] Fifteen cars and [A] fifteen restless [D] riders
[Bm] Three conductors and [A] twenty-five sacks of [D] mail.
All a - [Bm] long the south bound odyssey, -
the F#m train pulls out of Kenkakee
[A] Rolls along past houses farms and [E] fields
[Bm] Passing trains that have no name, -
[F#m] freight yards of old black men
And [A] graveyards of [A7] rusted automo - [D] biles.
Chorus:
[G] Good morning A - [A7] merica, how [D] are you?
Say, [Bm] don't you know me, [G] I'm your native [D] son. - [A7] I'm
the [D] train they call the [A] City of New [Bm] Orleans [Bm/A] [-] [E7/Ab]
I'll be [C] gone five [G] hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [D]
Dealing [D] card games with the [A] old men in the [D] club car
[Bm] Penny a point ain't [G] no one keeping [D] score [D]
[D] Pass the paper [A] bag that holdīs the [D] bottle
[Bm] Feel the wheels [A] rumbling 'neath the [D] floor
And the [Bm] sons of Pullman porters - and the [F#m] sons of engineers
Ride their [A] father's magic carpets made of [E] steel
[Bm] Mother with her babes asleep - [F#m] rocking to the gentle beat
And the [A] rhythm of the [A7] rails is all they [D] feel.
Chorus:
[G] Good morning A - [A7] merica, how [D] are you?
Say, [Bm] don't you know me, [G] I'm your native [D] son. - [A7] I'm
the [D] train they call the [A] City of New [Bm] Orleans [Bm/A] [-] [E7/Ab]
I'll be [C] gone five [G] hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [D]
[D] Night time on the [A] City of New [D] Orleans
[Bm] Changing cars in [G] Memphis Tennes - [D] see [D]
[D] Halfway home [A] we'll be there by [D] morning
through the [Bm] Mississippi darkness [A] rolling down to the [D] sea.
But [Bm] all the towns and people seem - to [F#m] fade into a dark dream
And the [A] steel rail still ain't heard the [E] news
The con - [Bm] ductor sings his songs again, - the [F#m] passengers will please refrain
This [A] train got the disap - [A7] pearing railroad [D] blues.
Chorus:
[G] Good morning A - [A7] merica, how [D] are you?
Say, [Bm] don't you know me, [G] I'm your native [D] son. - [A7] I'm
the [D] train they call the [A] City of New [Bm] Orleans [Bm/A] [-] [E7/Ab]
I'll be [C] gone five [G] hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [D]
Outro:
D - A - D - Bm - G - D fade during playing
D xx0232
A x02220
Bm x24432
G 320033
[F#m]E [244222]022100
A7 x02020
Bm/A x04432
E7/Ab 422430
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