City Of New Orleans

|D# |D# |D# |D# | D# A# D# D# Riding on the City of New Orleans Cm G# D# D# Illinois Central, Monday morning rail D# A# D# D# Fifteen cars, fifteen restless riders Cm A# D# D# Three conductors and tweny-five sacks of mail Cm Cm All along the southbound odyssey Gm Gm The train pulls out at Kankakee A# A# F F Rolls along past houses, farms and fields Cm Cm Passin' trains that have no names Gm Gm Freight yards full of old black men A# A# D# D# And the graveyards of rusted automobiles G# A# D# D# Good morning America, how are you? Cm G# D# Don't you know me, I'm your native son A# D# A# Cm A# F I am the train they call The City of New Orleans C# G# A# D# I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done |D# |D# |D# D# A# D# D# Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car Cm G# D# D# Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score D# A# D# D# Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle Cm A# D# D# Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor Cm Cm And the sons of Pullman Porters Gm Gm And the sons of engineers A# A# F F Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel Cm Cm Mothers with their babes asleep Gm Gm Are rockin' to the gentle beat A# A# D# D# And the rhythm of the rail is all they feel G# A# D# D# Good morning America, how are you? Cm G# D# Don't you know me, I'm your native son A# D# A# Cm A# F I am the train they call The City of New Orleans C# G# A# D# D# I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done |G# |D# |D# |D# | |Cm |G# |D# |D# | |D# |A# |Cm A# |F | |C# Cm |A# |D# |D# | |D# |D# | D# A# D# D# Nighttime on the city of New Orleans Cm G# D# D# Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee D# A# D# D# Half way home, we'll be there by morning Cm Through the Mississippi darkness A# D# D# Rolling down to the sea Cm Cm All the towns and people seem Gm Gm To fade into a bad dream A# A# F F And the steel rails still ain't heard the news Cm Cm The conductor sings his song again Gm Gm The passengers will please refrain A# A# D# D# This train has got the disappearing railroad blues G# A# D# D# Good morning America, how are you? Cm G# D# Don't you know me, I'm your native son A# D# A# Cm A# F I am the train they call The City of New O___rleans C# Cm A# D# D# I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done G# A# D# D# Good morning America, how are you? Cm G# D# Don't you know me, I'm your native son A# D# A# Cm A# F I am the train they call The City of New O___rleans C# Cm A# D# D# I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done |D# |A# |D# |D# | |Cm |G# |D# |D# | |D# |A# |D# |D# | |Cm |A# |D# |D# | |D# |D# |D# |D# | |D# |D# |D#