Intro: G for 2 bars G D G Riding on the City of New Orleans Em C G Illinois Central Monday morning rail G D G Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Em D G Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail Em Bm All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee D A Rolls along past houses farms and fields Em Bm Passing trains that have no name, freight yards full of old black men D D7 G And the graveyards of rusted automobiles???Chorus Chorus: C D7 G Good morning America, how are you? (night at 3rd chorus) Em C G D7 D9 Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son G D Em Em7 A7 I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans Bb C D D9 G I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done G D G Dealing card games with the old men in the club car Em C G Penny a point ain't no one keeping score G D G Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle Em D G Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor Em Bm And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers D A Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel Em Bm Mothers with their babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat D D7 G And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel???Chorus G D G Nightime on the City of New Orleans Em C G Changing cars in Memphis Tennessee G D G Half way home we'll be there by morning Em D G through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea Em Bm But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream D A And the steel rail still ain't heard the news Em Bm The conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrain D D7 G This train got the disappearing railroad blues???Chorus