The City of New Orleans

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

Tabbed by Mark Purintun
http://www.dataflo.net/~mpurintun
6  6   6  6     6 6  6  -5 -5     5       5 5  5   5   4      
| Riding on the | City of New Or | leans. | Illinois Central, |
   -6 -6  -6  6  6    6 ----> R  RRRR 
| Monday mor orning rail. |    |      |
   6   6    6    6  6      6    6  -5  -5 5     RRR   5    5
| Fifteen cars and fif | teen restless riders, |    three con |
    5  4 r 5      6  6   6    6   -3   4  R   RRR  5  5     5  5   5    5
| ductors and | twenty five sacks of mail.  |     All a | long a southbound |
   5 5 5    5      5     5    5   5  5     5 5 r  5     6   6  6    6
| odyssey, the | train pulls out of Kan | kakee. It | rolls along past |
    6 6     6    6     -6 -5# R  RRRR     5  5     5     5    5
| houses, farms and | fields.   |     | Passing trains that have | 
   5   5     5     5    5     5   5  5      5    5    6   6      6   6    -4  5
| no name, frei | ght yards full of old | black men, and the | graveyards of the |
   -5 -5 -5 5-4  4 ----->      5  456  -4-5-6  567
| rusted automobiles. |     | (And  I'm   sing   in') |     

    7    7     -7 -7 -7 -7 -7   -6  6 --> 4  R  RRR  -4
| Good morn | ing Am er i  ca, how are | you?  |   Say'n, |
    5    5    5   4     -6  -6  -6  6     6 R  R  6   -5     5     5   5    5
| don't you know me, | I'm your native | son?  | I'm the | train they call the |
   6 6  6  -6    5-4 4    RRr  4   4  -7 ->  -7   -6 -6    6--->   6   6  6-5  5
| City of New | Orleans. |   I'll be gone | five hundred miles | when the day is |
    4   R   RRRR   RRRR
| done.   |      |      |

 RRR   6  -

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