Arlo Guthrie Johnny Cash
City of
New Orleans
Words and
Music by Steve Goodman
Arlo Guthrie, Johnny Cash
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Midi 1(G145)
Midi 2(G135) Midi 3(C88) Midi 4(G175) Midi 5(G135)*-harp |
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Tabbed by Mark Purintun For Diatonic harmonica |
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This song was made for the harmonica. Interesting story... |
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Hilarious videos |
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| Riding on the | City of New Or | leans. | Illinois Central, |
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| Monday mor orning rail. | | |
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| Fifteen cars and fif | teen restless riders, | three con |
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| ductors and | twenty five sacks of mail. | All a
| long a southbound |
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| odyssey, the | train pulls out of Kan | kakee. It | rolls along past |
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| houses, farms and | fields. | | Passing
trains that have |
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| no name, frei | ght yards full of old | black men, and the | graveyards of the
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| rusted automobiles. | | (And I'm
sing in') |
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| Good morn | ing Am er i ca, how are | you? | Say'n, |
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| don't you know me, | I'm your native | son? | I'm the | train they call
the |
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| City of New | Orleans. | I'll be gone | five hundred miles | when
the day is |
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| done. | |
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| Dealing | card games with the | old men in the club | car. |
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| Penny a point, ain't | no one keeping score. | |
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| Pass the paper bag | that holds the bot | tle. | Feel the | wheels
a rum |
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4-----> R RRR
| blin' beneath the floor. | |
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| And the | sons of Pullman | por r ters and | the sons of en
n |
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| gineers ride | their fathers ma | gic carpets made of steel. |
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| And mothers with their | babes asleep, rockin' to the gen | tle beat. And the
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| rhythm of the | rails is al l they feel. | | And
I'm sing in' |
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| Good morn | ing Am er i ca, how are | you? | Say'n, |
5 5 5 4
-6 -6 -6 6 6 R R 6
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| don't you know me, | I'm your native | son? | I'm the | train they call
the |
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| City of New | Orleans. | I'll be gone | five hundred miles | when
the day is |
4 R RRRR RRRR
RRRR
| done. | |
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| Nighttime on the | City of New Or | leans. | | Changin'
cars in |
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| Memphis, Tenne nes see. | | |
Halfway home and we'll | be there by morn |
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| ing. | Through the | Missis si | ppi darkness rollin' down
to the sea. |
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| Bu ut | all the towns and | people seem to | fade into a ba
| ad dream and |
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| the steel rails still | ain't hea rd the | news. |
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| Conductor sings his | song again. | The passengers will | please refrain. This
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| train has got the | disappearin' railroad blues. | |
And I'm sing in' |
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| Good nite | Am er i ca, how are | you? | Say'n, |
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-6 -6 -6 6 6 R R 6
-5 5 5 5
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| don't you know me, | I'm your native | son? | I'm the | train they call
the |
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4 4 -7 -> -7 -6 -6 6--->
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| City of New | Orleans. | I'll be gone | five hundred miles | when
the day is |
4 R RRRR RRRR
RRRR
| done. | |
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Arlo Guthrie
Johnny Cash
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