The City Of New Orleans

**Chords:**
C  G  Am  F  
C  G  C  

C                G  
Riding on the City of New Orleans  
Am               F  
Illinois Central Monday mornin' rail  
C                  G  
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders  
Am                      F  
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail  

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

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