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City Of New Orleans - Me First And The Gimme Gimmes Chords

Chords: F#, C#, D#m, B, A#m, G#, C#7, G#7, E

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Genre: punk, cover, folk


[Intro]
F#

[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

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