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From gil@asterix.lbl.gov (Gil Rivlis)

Subject: CRD: City of New Orleans (performed by Arlo Guthrie)

Date: 20 Jan 1993 03:58:23 GMT





Anyone has the chords for Black Water by the Doobie Brothers?



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                City of New Orleans (As performed by Arlo Guthrie)

(Who wrote it?)



Into:

| G / / / | G / / / |



| G      /      D    /   |  G   / / / |

  Riding on the City of New Orleans

| Em       /       C      /     | G   /   /   /   |

  Illinois Central Monday morning rail

| G       /        D       /      | G   /   /   / |

  Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders

       | Em     /    D           /      | G  /  /  / |

Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.

  | Em        /           /    /     | Bm          /      /     /   |

All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee

| D      /         /      /       | A   /   /   /  |

  Rolls along past houses farms and fields

| Em       /          /       /   | Bm      /        /         /   |

  Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men

  | D      /      D7     /    | G    /   /   /   |

And graveyards of rusted automobiles.





Chorus:

| C      /      D7   /   |  G      /    /   /   |

  Good morning America, how are you?

                                                         1/2 1/2

   | Em        /        C        /    |  G      /    /   D7  D9   |

Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.

      | G          /        D    /    | Em     Em7    A7    /  |

I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans

      | Bb        C       D              D9    | G    /   /   /   |

I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.





Dealing card games with the old men in the club car

Penny a point ain't noone keeping score

Pass the paper bag but hold the bottle

Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor

   And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers

   Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel

   Mother with her babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat

   And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

Chorus. (As above)



Nightime on the City of New Orleans

Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee

Half way home we'll be there by morning

through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.

   But all the towns and people seem to fade into a dark dream

   And the steel rail still ain't heard the news

   The conductor sings his songs again, the passagers will please refrain

   This train got the disappearing railroad blues.



Chorus:

Good night America, How are you?

Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.

I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans

I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.





G     3 2 0 0 0 3    (or  3 2 0 0 3 3 or 3 5 5 4 3 3 )

D     x x 0 2 3 2    (or  x 5 4 2 3 2)

Em    0 2 2 0 0 0

C     x 3 2 0 1 0    (or  x 3 5 5 5 3)

Bm    x 2 4 4 3 2

A     x 0 2 2 2 0

D7    x x 0 2 1 2    (or  x 5 4 5 3 x)

D9    x x 0 2 1 0

Em7   0 2 0 0 0 0    (or  0 2 2 0 3 0)

A7    x 0 2 0 2 0

Bb    x 1 3 3 3 1



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