1. C G C Riding on the City of New Orleans, Am F C G7 Illinois Central Monday morning rail C G C Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders, F G C Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail. Am All along the southbound odyssey Em The train pulls out at Kankakee C D Rolls along past houses, farms and fields. Am Passin' trains that have no names, Em Freight yards full of old black men F G7 C And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles. CHORUS: F G C Singing: Good morning America how are you? Am F C Don't you know me I'm your native son, G7 C G C I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans, F G7 C I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.