New Orleans (Riding Home)
New Orleans
(Riding Home) is on The Piano Album, a collection of demos recorded in November
1976 that was published by Neon Dreams in 2008, thanks to the efforts
The song
morphed into Going Home (Homeward Looking Bird), on the
Secret Tapes ’86 cassette.
Not hard to
play, I think it sounds best strummed.
(Em)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(Em)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(Em) Shadow (D)on
my window (C)light, (D)
(Em) Lonesome (D)homeward
bird in (C)flight. (D)
(G) Sails along the (Em)highway,
(G) Wichita (Em)skyway,
(D) Everybody (C)watches
in the (D)night, (C)
(D) Everybody (C)watches
in the (D)night.
(Em) A cold sky´s (D)breaking where he's (C)been,
(D)
(Em) Flying (D)southward
with the (C)wind. (D)
(G) The gypsy´s words were (Em)true,
(G) His empty eyes will (Em)find you.
(D)Maybe some to(C)morrow, my old (D)friend, (C)
(D) Maybe some to(C)morrow, my old (D)friend. (D4) (D)
(G) New Or(Em)leans,
(G) New Or(Em)leans,
I said (C)New (Am) Or(F)leans, (G)I´m flying
(Em)home (D)
With the (C)wind, (D) with the (C)wind, (D) with the (C)wind.
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(Em) Stray dogs and (D)strangers on the (C)road,
(D)
(Em) See there in the (D)headlights as you (C)go.
(D)
Don´t you (G)look in their eyes for too (Em)long,
They´re
singing, (G) ‘Please, oh, (Em)take me along’,
And (D)those eyes, they can (C)haunt
you like a (D)song, (C)
(D)Those eyes, they can (C)haunt you like a (D)song.
(G) New Or(Em)leans,
(G) New Or(Em)leans,
I said (C)New (Am) Or(F)leans, (G)I´m flying
(Em)home (D)
With the (C)wind, (D) with the (C)wind, (D) with the (C)wind.
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(C)
(D)
(G) New Or(Em)leans,
(G) New Or(Em)leans,
I said (C)New (Am) Or(F)leans, (G)I´m flying
(Em)home (D)
With the (C)wind, (D) with the (C)wind, (D) with the (C)wind,
(D) With the (C)wind.
(D) (Em)
© John
Stewart, All Rights Reserved
janhauenstein@gmx.de, Charlie Woodward
& Art Faller
May 2009