City Of New Orleans

**Chords:**
C  F  C  G7  
C  F  C  G7  
C  F  C  G7  
C  F  C  

C                   F         C  
Riding on the City of New Orleans,  
         G7                     C  
Illinois Central Monday morning rail.  
          F                   C  
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,  
      G7                       C  
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.  

C                   F         C  
All along the southbound odyssey,  
         G7                      C  
The train pulls out at Kankakee,  
           F               C  
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields,  
        G7                    C  
Passing trains that have no name,  
        F                   C  
And freight yards full of old black men,  
       G7                   C  
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.  

C                   F         C  
Good morning America, how are you?  
         G7                      C  
Say, don’t you know me? I’m your native son.  
         F                     C  
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans,  
        G7                     C  
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.