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Tuning: E A D G B E
Title: City Of New Orleans
Artist: Arlo Guthrie
Author and Copyright: MississippiHans (arr.+tab.)
Tempo: Q=150
Play bass quarters with your right-hand thumb and insert eighths.
Rhythm is 1 2+ 3 4 (bam ba-ba bam bam) throughout the piece.
The chord names above the tab lines indicate the left-hand position.
Play the E-bass string (6th) 2nd fret in the D chord with your left-hand thumb wrap around.
[Intro]
E|------------------------|
B|------------------------|
G|----------0-------------| 2x
D|------2------------2----|
A|-3------------3---------|
E|------------------------|
[Verse]
C G G7 C
E|-0-----------------0----|-3-----------------1----|-1----0-----------------|------------------------|
B|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
G|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|
D|------2------------2----|------0------------0----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-3------------3---------|------------------------|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|
E|------------------------|-3------------3---------|------------------------|------------------------|
Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car,
Night time on the City of New Orleans,
Am F G G7
E|-0-----------------0----|-5-----------------3----|-3----------------------|--------------3----1----|
B|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
G|----------2-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|
D|------2------------2----|------0------------0----|------0------------0----|------0------------0----|
A|-0------------0---------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
E|------------------------|-5------------5---------|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail,
Penny a point, ain't no one keeping score,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennes- see,
C G G7 C
E|-0-----------------0----|-3-----------------1----|-1----0-----------------|------------------------|
B|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
G|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|
D|------2------------2----|------0------------0----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-3------------3---------|------------------------|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|
E|------------------------|-3------------3---------|------------------------|------------------------|
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle,
Halfway home, we'll be there by morning, through the
Am G C
E|-0-----------------0----|-3----------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
B|------------------------|-------------------0----|-1----------------------|------------------------|
G|----------2-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|
D|------2------------2----|------0------------0----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-0------------0---------|------------------------|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|
E|------------------------|-3------------3---------|------------------------|------------------------|
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.
Am Em
E|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0--------0----|
B|-1--------1--------1----|-1--------1--------1----|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0--------0----|
G|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-0------------0---------|-0------------0---------|------------------------|------------------------|
E|------------------------|------------------------|-0------------0---------|-0------------0---------|
All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee,
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engi- neers
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
G D
E|------------------------|-------------------0----|-0----------------------|------------------------|
B|-3--------3--------3----|-3--------3--------3----|-3----------------------|------------------------|
G|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0-------------|----------2-------------|----------2-------------|
D|------0------------0----|------0------------0----|------0------------0----|------0------------0----|
A|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
E|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|-2------------2---------|-2------------2---------|
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields,
Ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steel,
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news.
Am Em
E|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0--------0----|
B|-1--------1--------1----|-1--------1--------1----|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0--------0----|
G|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-0------------0---------|-0------------0---------|------------------------|------------------------|
E|------------------------|------------------------|-0------------0---------|-0------------0---------|
Passing trains that have no name, freight yards full of old black men
Mothers with their babes asleep, rockin' to the gentle beat,
The conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrain,
G G7 C
E|-3--------3--------3----|-1--------0-------------|------------------------|------------------------|
B|-0--------0--------0----|-0--------0--------3----|-1----------------------|------------------------|
G|------------------------|------------------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|
D|------0------------0----|------0------------0----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|------------------------|------------------------|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|
E|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|------------------------|------------------------|
and graveyards of rusted automo- biles.
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.
This train got the disap- pearing rail- road blues.
[Chorus]
C G F C
E|-8-----------------8----|-7-----------------5----|-3----------------------|------------------------|
B|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
G|----------9-------------|----------7-------------|----------5-------------|----------5-------------|
D|------10-----------10---|------9------------7----|------5------------5----|------5------------5----|
A|------------------------|------------------------|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|
E|-8------------8---------|-7------------8---------|------------------------|------------------------|
Good morning A- merica, how are you?
Am F G G7
E|-0-----------------0----|-5-----------------3----|-3----------------------|--------------3----1----|
B|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
G|----------2-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|
D|------2------------2----|------0------------0----|------0------------0----|------0------------0----|
A|-0------------0---------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
E|------------------------|-5------------5---------|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|
Don't you know me, I'm your native son. I'm the
C G Am
E|-0-----------------0----|-3----------------/5----|-0----------------------|------------------------|
B|------------------------|------------------------|----------1-------------|----------1-------------|
G|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------2------------2----|------0------------0----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|-3------------3---------|------------------------|-0------------0---------|-0------------0---------|
E|------------------------|-3------------3---------|------------------------|------------------------|
train they call the City of New Orleans I'll be
Bb F G C
E|-6---------5---------|-3------------3----0----|------------------------|------------------------|
B|-6---------6---------|------------------------|-1----------------------|------------------------|
G|---------------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|
D|------8---------7----|------0------------0----|------2------------2----|------2------------2----|
A|---------------------|------------------------|-3------------3---------|-3------------3---------|
E|-6---------5---------|-3------------3---------|------------------------|------------------------|
gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
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