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[Verse 1]

F#            C#      F#
Riding on the City of New Orleans
D#m               B              F#   C#
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail
F#               C#               F#
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
D#m                  C#                   F#
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.

     D#m                               A#m
All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee
C#                                 G#
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields
D#m                               A#m
Passing trains that have no name, freight yards full of old black men
        C#                C#7          F#
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

[Chorus]

B             C#          F#
Good morning America, how are you?
     D#m                B               F#
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
C#7      F#                  C#      D#m        G#7
I'm  the train they call the City of New Orleans
        E         B       C#                    F#
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

[Verse 2]

        F#                  C#             F#
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car
D#m                  B              F#   C#
Penny a point, ain't no one keeping score
F#                      C#        F#
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
D#m             C#                  F#
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor

        D#m                             A#m
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
C#                                        G#
Ride their fathers' magic carpets made of steel
D#m                              A#m
Mothers with their babes asleep, rockin' to the gentle beat
        C#            C#7               F#
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

[Chorus]

B             C#          F#
Good morning America, how are you?
     D#m                B               F#
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
C#7      F#                  C#      D#m        G#7
I'm  the train they call the City of New Orleans
        E         B       C#                    F#
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

[Acoustic strum]

B             C#          F#
Good morning America, how are you?
     D#m                B               F#
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
C#7      F#                  C#      D#m        G#7
I'm  the train they call the City of New Orleans
        E         B       C#                    F#
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.



[Chorus]

B            C#         F#
Good night America, how are you?
     D#m                B               F#
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
C#7      F#                  C#      D#m        G#7
I'm  the train they call the City of New Orleans
        E         B       C#                    F#
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.