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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:38:46 -0400
From: DABRIWEI@aol.com
Subject: g/guthrie_arlo/city_of_new_orleans.crd
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Subject: g/guthrie_arlo/city_of_new_orleans.crd
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:24:50 -0800
>From gil@asterix.lbl.gov (Gil Rivlis) (J. Robson below)
Subject: CRD: City of New Orleans (performed by Arlo Guthrie)
Date: 20 Jan 1993 03:58:23 GMT
Anyone has the chords for Black Water by the Doobie Brothers?
ObCrd
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City of New Orleans (As performed by Arlo Guthrie)
(Who wrote it?) steve goodman
Into:
| G / / / | G / / / |
| G / D / | G / / / |
Riding on the City of ...
| Em / C / | G / / / |
Illinois Central ...
| G / D / | G / / / |
Fifteen cars and fifteen ..
| Em / D / | G / / / |
Three conductors and twenty-five ...
| Em / / / | Bm / / / |
All along the south bound odyssey, ...
| D / / / | A / / / |
Rolls along past houses ...
| Em / / / | Bm / / / |
Passing trains that have no name, ...
| D / D7 / | G / / / |
And graveyards of ...
Chorus:
| C / D7 / | G / / / |
Good morning America...
1/2 1/2
| Em / C / | G / / D7 D9 |
Say, don't you know me, I'm ....
| G / D / | Em Em7 A7 / |
I'm the train they call the ...
| Bb C D D9 | G / / / |
I'll be gone five hundred miles when ...
G 3 2 0 0 0 3 (or 3 2 0 0 3 3 or 3 5 5 4 3 3 )
D x x 0 2 3 2 (or x 5 4 2 3 2)
Em 0 2 2 0 0 0
C x 3 2 0 1 0 (or x 3 5 5 5 3)
Bm x 2 4 4 3 2
A x 0 2 2 2 0
D7 x x 0 2 1 2 (or x 5 4 5 3 x)
D9 x x 0 2 1 0
Em7 0 2 0 0 0 0 (or 0 2 2 0 3 0)
A7 x 0 2 0 2 0
Bb x 1 3 3 3 1
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J@LaffingAcademy.com (J. Robson) says:
the right key for this song is f#
F# X 4 4 3 2 2
G# X 6 6 5 4 4
A#m X X 3 3 2 1
B X X 4 4 4 2
C# X X 3 1 2 1
D#m X X 4 3 4 1
E 0 2 2 1 0 0
[F#]Riding on the [C#]City of New [F#]Orleans,
[D#m]Illinois Central [B]Monday morning [F#]rail
...
...
All a[D#m]long ...
The [A#m]train ...
[C#]Rolls along past houses, farms and [G#]fields.
[D#m]Passin' ...
[A#m]Freight ..
And the [C#]graveyards of the [B]rusted automo[F#]biles.
CHORUS:
[B]Good morning A[C#]merica how [F#]are you? I said
[D#m]Don't you know me [B]I'm your native [F#]son,
I'm the [F#]train they call The [C#]City of New [F#]Orleans,[F#maj7 F7/B]
I'll be [E]gone five hundred [C#]miles when the day is [F#]done.
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dabriwei@aol.com says:
These are the chords that go along with Arlo's studio version of the song,
which reflect a few corrections to the previous chords given, plus
written how they are played using a capo instead of barring # chords.
Have fun. Brian.
Capo 1
F C F
Riding ...................,
Dm Bb F
Illinois ...................,.
F C F
Fifteen cars ...................,,
Dm C F
Three conductors ...................,.
Dm
All ...................,,
Am
the train ...................,e,
C G
rolls ...................,.
Dm
Passing ...................,,
Am
freight ...................,
C Bb F
and ...................,.
Bb C F
Good morning ...................,
Dm Bb F
Say, ...................,.
C F C Dm-Dm/C#- G7
I'm the train ...................,,
D#-D#/D C F
I'll be gone five ...................,.
For the D#-D#/D walk down, I find it easiest to do:
D# X X 1 3 4 X
D#/D X X 0 3 4 X