Tabs

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Tabbed by: Mike Nachaj :: mike@mikemusicbox.com

Song: City Of New Orleans
By:   Steve Goodman

[intro:] {walk up bass line G A B C}
 
[verse: 1]
 C             G           C
Riding on the City of New Orleans
  Am                F             C       G7
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail
            C                G                C
There are fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
 Am                    G                   C        C7
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
 
[bridge: 1]
              Am
They are all along the southbound odyssey
     Em
The train pulls out at Kankakee
G                                        Dm
 And rolls along past houses, farms and fields
 Am
Passing towns that have no name
      Em
And freight yards full of old black men
           G                G7         C        
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
 
[chorus: 1]
         F              G             C       
Singing good morning America, how are ya
      Am                 F               C    G7
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son
          C                  G           C         
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
         Am         F      G                     C       C
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
 
[verse: 2]
         C                   G                   C
I was dealing card with the old men in the club car
           Am                         F                C       G7
And it's a penny a point, there ain't no one keeping score
           C               G                    C
Won't you pass that paper bag that holds that bottle
         Am                 G                   C        C7
You can feel the wheels grumbling through the floor
 
[bridge: 2]
        Am
And the sons of pullman porters
     Em
The sons of engineers
                  G                              Dm
They ride their fathers' magic carpets made of steam
      Am
And mothers with their babes asleep
     Em
Go rocking to the gentle beat
       G            G7                C       C7
The rhythm of the rails is all they dream
 
[chorus: 2]
                 F            G                C
Just a singing, good morning America, how are you
      Am                F                C      G7
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son
         C                   G            C         
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
         Am         F       G                    C        C
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done
         Am         F        G                   C        C
 
[verse: 3]
   C              G           C
Nighttime on the City of New Orleans
  Am               F          C       G7
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
 C                   G             C
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
  C           Am                   G             C       C7
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling to the sea
 
[bridge: 3]
    Am
But all the towns and people 
        Em
Seem to fade into a bad dream
     G                                 Dm
The old steel rail it ain't heard the news
       Am
The conductor sings his songs again
        Em
The passengers will please refrain
       G             G7                    C        C7
This train got the disappearing railroad blues
 
[chorus: 3]
                  F          G               C
Just a singing, good night America, how are you
      Am                 F               C      G7
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son
          C                   G           C
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
        Am          F       G                     C       C7
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

[coda: chorus] 
                 F            G              C
Just a singing, good night America, how are you
      Am                 F               C      G7
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son
               C                   G           C
Well I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
             Am     F         G                    Cm       G7   C    C {finish}
And I'll be gone a long long time when the day is done
 




chords:

Am      002210 
C       032010
C7      032310
Em      022000
F       133211
G       320003
G7      320001