The City of New Orleans Chords by Johnny Cash

[Start]

[Verse]
Bb F7 Bb               F           Bb     
■  ■  ■  Riding on the city of New Orleans
Gm               Eb             Bb  
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
                 F                Bb     Gm
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders ■ 
Bb                                           
Three conductors and twentyfour sacks of mail
Gm                              
All along the southbound odyssey
    Gm                         
The train rolls out of Kankakee
    F     C          F                C     
And rolls along past houses farms and fields


[Chorus]
Gm                              
Passin' trains that have no name
G7                       Gm           
And switch yards full of old black men
F       F7                            Bb         
And the graveyards full of the rusted automobiles
Eb      F              
■  Good morning America
Bb         
How are you
Gm                 Eb          Bb        
Say don't you know me I'm your native son
    Bb                                         
I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans
Ab           Eb   F                      Bb         
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done


[Verse]
        F                       Bb          
Dealin' card with an old man in the club car
        Gm             Bb           
Penny a point nobody's keepin' score
    Bb 
Hey now
         F7             F         Bb     Gm
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle ■ 
Bb           F                      Bb       
And feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor
Gm                             
And the sons of Pullman Porters
Gm                       
And the sons of engineers
F                                    C       
Ride their daddy's magic carpet made of steel


[Chorus]
Gm                                
■  Mothers with their babes asleep
Gm                        
Rockin' to the gentle beat
F                                 F7   Bb  
And the rhythm of the rail is all they feel
Eb      F              
■  Good morning America
Bb         
How are you
Gm                    Eb       Bb        
Say don't you know me I'm your native son
                        F7          Bb         
I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans
Ab           Eb   F                          Bb     
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done


[Verse]
F7                       Bb         
Nighttime on the city of New Orleans
Gm            Eb         Bb       
Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee
                                Gm     
Half way home we'll be there by morning
Bb                      F       
Through the Mississippi darkness
                Bb     
Rolling down to the sea
Gm                               
And all the towns and people seem
                   F    
To fade into a bad dream
                                      C       
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
Gm                                 
The conductor sings his songs again
    Gm                            
The passengers will please refrain
F                                   Bb            
This train has got the disappearing railroad blues


[Chorus]
Eb      F              
■  Good morning America
F7  Bb     
How are you
Gm                 Eb          Bb        
Say don't you know me I'm your native son
                        F           Bb         
I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans
Ab           Eb   F                          Bb     
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Ab           Eb   F                          Bb     
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done


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