Chords for Alicia Keys & Jay Z Perform 'Empire State of Mind' Live at Madison Square Garden | Billboard

_ [F] New York!
_ [C] _ _ _
_ [Bb] Are you in an empire state of mind? _ _
_ [F] _ Say yeah!
[C] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ Come on, let's talk about where we are.
Come on.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] Grew up in a town that is famous as a place where [Bb] moons sing.
_ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ Noises always loud, there are sirens all around and it's [Bb] because of me.
_ _ _ [F] _ _
_ I can make it here, I can make it [Dm] anywhere, that's what [Bb] they _ say.
_ [F] _ _
_ [F] See my face in the lines, all my name on my keys, [Dm] found down on [Bb] Broadway.
_ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [A] Even if it ain't all it seems, I got a pocket full of dreams.
Baby, I'm [Bb] from New [Bb] York, _ concrete jungle, _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ now you're a [Bb] clue.
_ _ _ These streets will make you feel [F] grand, be like Quill and [C] Clyde.
They're in [Bb] New York, New York, New York. _
_ [F] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
Hey, let's have some fun.
_ _ _ _ [Gb]
I got a million women.
Let's have some fun.
Let's go, [Gbm] let's go.
Hey, we got [B] weed, we got weed, we got weed, we got weed, we got weed.
[Gb]
Hey, let's have some _ _ fun.
Let's have some fun.
Let's have some fun.
Let's have some fun.
Let's have some fun.
[N] Hold up, freeze.
_ Can we take it to the airplane? _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Yeah.
_ _ _ [C] My [F] name's Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca, right next to the narrow.
But I'll be home forever, I'm [Bb] a little cilantro.
And since I'm making it here, I can make it anywhere.
Yeah, they love me everywhere, I [F] used to come in Harlem.
I'm on my DVD, kind of straight up on Broadway.
Pull me back to the McDonald's, look into [Bb] my staff bar, 560 State Street.
Text me in the e-tip like I'm sitting on a pastry.
Put me down mainstream, I'm fighting like shit.
I'm a soul to our beat, say it from Clackson.
This is me, [Bb] I'm up that next stop.
Home of that boy, man, you never met my real boss.
And I want my boy to be [F] tabled up to time.
I can feel it sipping my top, drinking cocktail.
Internet's giving me hotbox.
[A] I'm like, I can't take a breath from here.
Tell them about my attitude, that I'm on Stephanie [Bb] D.
Yes! _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] Yes!
_ [F] _ [Bb] _ That's right, that's right.
_ _ [F] _ Do!
_ [C] _
Do!
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ Do! _ _
_ Do!
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _