City Of New Orleans Cifra

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