City of New Orleans Tabs & Lyrics by Steve Goodman
City of New Orleans
guitar tabs lyrics
I�m not sure but thats the tab for the version, i know.
F
F C F
Riding on the City of New Orleans
Dm Bb F
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
F C F
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Dm C F
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
Dm Am
All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kankakee
C G
Rolls along past houses farms and fields
Dm Am
Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men
C Bb F F5G5A5 (Listen to it and you�ll
And graveyards of rusted automobiles get it)
Bb C F
Good morning America, How are you?
Dm Bb F
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
C F C Dm C Bb
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
D# Dm C F
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car
Penny a point ain't noone keeping score
Pass the paper bag but holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Mothers with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel
Good morning America, How are you?
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Half way home we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrain
This train�s got the disappearing railroad blues
Good night America, How are you?
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Good night America, How are you?
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
Chords used
F 133211
C X32010
Dm XX0231 (or X57765 for chorus)
Bb X13331 (or 688766 for chorus)
Am X02210
G 320033
F5 133XXX
A5 577XXX
G5 355XXX
D# X68886
(If you play the chorus barred it�s pretty easy)
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Great song!
