| Song Name: | The City of New Orleans | By: | Arlo Guthrie |
| Posted By: | mpurintun | Difficulty: | Beginner |
| Key: | C | Genre: | General |
| Harp Type: | Any | ||
| Created: | 2004-12-02 10:12:13 | Modified: | 2005-03-01 02:03:43 |
| Song: | un 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 -5 -5 5 5 5 5 5 4 | Riding on the | City of New Or | leans. | Illinois Central, | -6 -6 -6 6 6 6 ----> R RRRR | Monday mor orning rail. | | | 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 -5 -5 5 RRR 5 5 | Fifteen cars and fif | teen restless riders, | three con | 5 4 r 5 6 6 6 6 -3 4 R RRR 5 5 5 5 5 5 | ductors and | twenty five sacks of mail. | All a | long a southbound | 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 r 5 6 6 6 6 | odyssey, the | train pulls out of Kan | kakee. It | rolls along past | 6 6 6 6 -6 -5# R RRRR 5 5 5 5 5 | houses, farms and | fields. | | Passing trains that have | 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 -4 5 | no name, frei | ght yards full of old | black men, and the | graveyards of the | -5 -5 -5 5-4 4 -----> 5 456 -4-5-6 567 | rusted automobiles. | | (And I'm sing in') | 7 7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -6 6 --> 4 R RRR -4 | Good morn | ing Am er i ca, how are | you? | Say'n, | 5 5 5 4 -6 -6 -6 6 6 R R 6 -5 5 5 5 5 | don't you know me, | I'm your native | son? | I'm the | train they call the | 6 6 6 -6 5-4 4 RRr 4 4 -7 -> -7 -6 -6 6---> 6 6 6-5 5 | City of New | Orleans. | I'll be gone | five hundred miles | when the day is | 4 R RRRR RRRR | done. | | | RRR 6 - |
