City Of New Orleans by Johnny Cash, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

City Of New Orleans

Biography:

Johnny Cash (born J.R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel.

Cash was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice

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here are the bar chords (i think, i am still learning)if you don't feel like messing
a capo:

Bb F Gm D# Dm C F7 G7 F (?)
e | -------1-----3-----------5------------1-----3-------------- |
B | -3-----1-----3-----8-----6------5-----4-----6------10------ |
G | -3-----2-----3-----8-----7------5-----2-----4------10------ |
D | -3-----3-----5-----8-----7------5-----1-----3------10------ |
A | -1-----3-----5-----6-----5------3-----3-----5------8------- |
E | -------1-----3------------------------1-----3-------------- |

Bb F Bb
Riding on the City of New Orleans
Gm D# Bb
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Bb F Bb
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Gm F Bb
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
Gm Dm
All along the south bound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kenkakee
F C
Rolls along past houses farms and fields
Gm Dm
Passing trains that have no name, freight yards of old black men
F F7 Bb
And graveyards of rusted automobiles.

Chorus:
D# F Bb
Good morning America, how are you?
Gm D# Bb
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
Bb F Gm G7
I'm a train they call the City of New Orleans
D# F Bb
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Verse:
Bb F Bb
Dealing card games with the old men in the club car
Gm D# Bb
Penny a point ain't noone keeping score
Bb F Bb
Pass the paper bag but hold the bottle
Gm F Bb
Feel the wheels rumbling 'neath the floor
Gm Dm
And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineers
F C
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel
Gm Dm
Mother with her babes asleep, rocking to the gentle beat
F F7 Bb
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

::Chorus::
Bb F Bb
Nightime on the City of New Orleans
Gm D# Bb
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Bb F Bb
Half way home we'll be there by morning
Gm F Bb
through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.
Gm Dm
and all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
F C
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
Gm Dm
The conductor sings his songs again, the passagers will please refrain
F F7 Bb
This train got the disappearing railroad blues.

Chorus:
D# F Bb
Good night America, How are you?
Gm D# Bb
Say, don't you know me, I'm your native son.
Bb F Gm G7
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
D# F Bb
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.