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Scroll Stop Speed Chords: Hide Show Top Right//www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMVj04lfyo {c: } [D] Riding on the [A] City of New [D] Orleans, [Bm] Illinois Central [G] Monday morning [D] rail [A] [D] Fifteen cars and [A] fifteen restless [D] riders, Three [Bm] conductors and [A] twenty-five sacks of [D] mail. Out [Bm] on the southbound odyssey The [F#m] train pulls out from Kankakee [A] And rolls along past houses, farms and [E7] fields. [Bm] Passin' trains that have no names, [F#m] And freight yards full of old black men And the [A] graveyards of the [A7] rusted automo[D]biles. [D7] {c: } [G] Good morning [A] America how [D] are you? [Bm] Say don't you know me [G] I'm your native [D] son [A] I'm the [D] train they call The [A] City of New [Bm] Orleans, [E7] I'll be [C] gone five [G] hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [A] {c: } Dealin' [D] cards with the [A] old men in the [D] club car. [Bm] Penny a point there ain't [G] no one keepin' [D] score. [A] [D] Pass the paper [A] bag that holds the [D] bottle [Bm] Feel the wheels [A] rumblin' 'neath the [D] floor. {c: } And the [Bm] sons of pullman porters and the [F#m] sons of engineers Ride their [A] father's magic carpets made of [E7] steel. [Bm] And mothers with their babes asleep, Go [F#m] rockin' to the gentle beat And the [A] rhythm of the [A7] rails is all they [D] feel. [D7] {c: } [G] Good morning [A] America how [D] are you? [Bm] Say don't you know me [G] I'm your native [D] son [A] I'm the [D] train they call The [A] City of New [Bm] Orleans, [E7] I'll be [C] gone five [G] hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [A] {c: } [D] Night-time on The [A] City of New [D] Orleans, [Bm] Changing cars in [G] Memphis, Tennes-[D]-see. [A] [D] Half way home, [A] we'll be there by [D] morning Through the [Bm] Mississippi darkness [A] rolling down to the [D] sea. {c: } [Bm] All the towns and people seem to [F#m] fade into a bad dream And the [A] steel rails still ain't heard the [E7] news. The con-[Bm]-ductor sings his song again, the [F#m] passengers will please refrain [A] This train has got the [A7] disappearing railroad [D] blues. [D7] {c: } [G] Good night [A] America how [D] are you? [Bm] Say don't you know me [G] I'm your native [D] son [A] I'm the [D] train they call The [A] City of New [Bm] Orleans, [E7] I'll be [C] gone five [G] hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [A] {c: } I'll be [G] gone five hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [G] [A] [D] {t: City of New Orleans [D] } {key: D} {artist:Willie Nelson} Willie Nelson: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMVj04lfyo {c: } [D] Riding on the [A] City of New [D] Orleans, [Bm] Illinois Central [G] Monday morning [D] rail [A] [D] Fifteen cars and [A] fifteen restless [D] riders, Three [Bm] conductors and [A] twenty-five sacks of [D] mail. Out [Bm] on the southbound odyssey The [F#m] train pulls out from Kankakee [A] And rolls along past houses, farms and [E7] fields. [Bm] Passin' trains that have no names, [F#m] And freight yards full of old black men And the [A] graveyards of the [A7] rusted automo[D]biles. [D7] {c: } [G] Good morning [A] America how [D] are you? [Bm] Say don't you know me [G] I'm your native [D] son [A] I'm the [D] train they call The [A] City of New [Bm] Orleans, [E7] I'll be [C] gone five [G] hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [A] {c: } Dealin' [D] cards with the [A] old men in the [D] club car. [Bm] Penny a point there ain't [G] no one keepin' [D] score. [A] [D] Pass the paper [A] bag that holds the [D] bottle [Bm] Feel the wheels [A] rumblin' 'neath the [D] floor. {c: } And the [Bm] sons of pullman porters and the [F#m] sons of engineers Ride their [A] father's magic carpets made of [E7] steel. [Bm] And mothers with their babes asleep, Go [F#m] rockin' to the gentle beat And the [A] rhythm of the [A7] rails is all they [D] feel. [D7] {c: } [G] Good morning [A] America how [D] are you? [Bm] Say don't you know me [G] I'm your native [D] son [A] I'm the [D] train they call The [A] City of New [Bm] Orleans, [E7] I'll be [C] gone five [G] hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [A] {c: } [D] Night-time on The [A] City of New [D] Orleans, [Bm] Changing cars in [G] Memphis, Tennes-[D]-see. [A] [D] Half way home, [A] we'll be there by [D] morning Through the [Bm] Mississippi darkness [A] rolling down to the [D] sea. {c: } [Bm] All the towns and people seem to [F#m] fade into a bad dream And the [A] steel rails still ain't heard the [E7] news. The con-[Bm]-ductor sings his song again, the [F#m] passengers will please refrain [A] This train has got the [A7] disappearing railroad [D] blues. [D7] {c: } [G] Good night [A] America how [D] are you? [Bm] Say don't you know me [G] I'm your native [D] son [A] I'm the [D] train they call The [A] City of New [Bm] Orleans, [E7] I'll be [C] gone five [G] hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [A] {c: } I'll be [G] gone five hundred [A] miles when the day is [D] done. [G] [A] [D]
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