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Version 1 Version 2Bb F Gm Eb Dm C F7 G7 F (?) e|-------1-----3-----------5-----------1-----3-----------| B|-3-----1-----3-----8-----6-----5-----4-----6-----10----| G|-3-----2-----3-----8-----7-----5-----2-----4-----10----| D|-3-----3-----5-----8-----7-----5-----1-----3-----10----| A|-1-----3-----5-----6-----5-----3-----3-----5-----8-----| E|-------1-----3-----------------------1-----3-----------| [Verse] Bb F Bb Riding on the City of New Orleans Gm Eb Bb Illinois Central Monday morning rail Bb F Bb Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Gm F Bb Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail. Gm Dm All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee F C Rolls along past houses farms and fields Gm Dm Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men F F7 Bb And graveyards of rusted automobiles. [Chorus] Eb F Bb Good morning America, how are you? Gm Eb Bb Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. Bb F Gm G7 I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans Eb F Bb I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. [Verse] Bb F Bb Dealing card games with the old men in the club car Gm Eb Bb Penny a point ain't noone keeping score Bb F Bb Pass the paper bag but hold the bottle Gm F Bb Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor Gm Dm And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineers F C Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel Gm Dm Mother with her babes asleep, rocking to the gentle beat F F7 Bb And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel. ::Chorus:: [Verse] Bb F Bb Nightime on the City of New Orleans Gm Eb Bb Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee Bb F Bb Half way home we'll be there by morning Gm F Bb through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea. Gm Dm and all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream F C And the steel rail still ain't heard the news Gm Dm The conductor sings his songs again, the passagers will please refrain F F7 Bb This train got the disappearing railroad blues. [Chorus] Eb F Bb Good night America, How are you? Gm Eb Bb Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son. Bb F Gm G7 I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans Eb F Bb I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.