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Johnny Cash - City Of New Orleans (Chord)
Submitter: tyler1501 (37) on 12/21/05 3 comments
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CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
-S.Goodman-

KEY: Bb / CAPO: 3 / PLAY: G

INTRO: G  D  G

VERSE:
G             D           G
Ridin' on the City of New Orleans
Em               C              G
Illinois Central Monday mornin' rail
                 D                G        Em
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
      G              D                    G
Three conductors and twenty-four sacks of mail

    Em
All along the southbound odyssey the train rolls out of Kankakee
    D                                  A 
And moves along past houses, farms and fields
Em   
Passin' trains that have no name and switch yards full of old black men
D                            G           G7
And the graveyards of rusted automobiles

 
CHORUS:
C             D           G
Good mornin' America, how are you?
    Em                 C               G
Say don't you know me? I'm your native son
                          D           G
I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans
        F         C       D                     G
I'll be gone five-hundred miles when the day is done

VERSE:
Dealin' cards with the old men on the club car
Penny a point nobody's keepin' score
Hey now pass that paper bag that holds the bottle
And feel the wheels a-rumblin' neath the floor

And the sons of poor men porters and the sons of engineers
Ride their daddy's magic carpet made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel

CHORUS:
Good mornin' America, how are you?
Say don't you know me? I'm your native son
I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five-hundred miles when the day is done

VERSE:
Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home and we'll be there by mornin'
Thru the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea

And 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 song again the passengers will please refrain
This train has got the disappearin' railroad blues

CHORUS:
Good mornin' America, how are you?
Say don't you know me? I'm your native son
I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five-hundred miles when the day is done

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 Comments (click here to add a non-facebook comment)
great tab i like johnny singin it better that willie
-Big_country | 12/21/2005
Yeah, Bb's right.
-macg1 | 12/21/2005
I like Johnny singing it better than Me
-J.J. | 12/31/2005
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