Chords for Alicia Keys w/ Jay-Z "Empire State of Mind " Live from Nokia Theatre, New York

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_ _ _ _ _ Because there's only one place in the whole world that's like it. _ _ _ _ _
_ And fortunately we are here right now. _ _ _
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_ _ And I love [B] this place. _
Where we at, where we at, where we [F#] at. _ _ _ _
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_ _ My name on Marquee's found down on [B] Broadway.
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A#] Even if it ain't all it seems, I got a pocket full of dreams.
Baby [B] I'm from New York.
_ _ Concrete jungle where dreams [F#] are made of.
There's nothing you [C#] can't.
Now you're in [B] New York.
_ _ These streets will make you feel [F#] brand new.
Big lights will [C#] inspire you.
Here is the [B] New York, New York, New York.
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Yeah, yeah, [G] _ _ yeah, [B] yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah [F#] I'm on that Brooklyn.
Now I'm down in Tribe's Acre right next to the Nebro.
But I'll be hood forever.
I'm [B] the new Delantra.
And since I made it here, I could make it anywhere.
You ain't love me anywhere.
I used to [F#] cop in Harlem.
All of my team in the Conos right there on Broadway.
Brought me back to that McDonald's.
Took me [B] to my Dad's box.
560 State Street.
Catch me in the kitchen like a spinach with pastry.
Using [F#] L.A. Street.
I'm fight like shit.
Driving so slow.
But BK is from Texas.
Me [B] and my Neventa.
Home of that boy Biggie.
Now I live on Millport.
And I pull up boys with me.
Say [F#] what up, Natata.
Still sipping my ta.
Sitting cocks up.
Mixing that Jimmy Hop-Pop.
Yeah, [A#] I be spiked up.
I can trip on every cell by my attitude.
Tell them I'm Stephanie and [B] Lisa.
New York. _ _ _ _
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Now you're [B] in New York.
That's right.
That's right.
These streets will make you feel [F#] brand new.
Big lights will [C#] inspire you.
We're in [B] New York.
New York.
New York.
Yes.
[F#] Catch me at the X with OC at the Yankee cage.
Yeah, I made that Yankee hat more famous than that Yankee cage.
You [B] should know I lay blue.
But I'm out of crypto.
But I got the whole nation messing with my clique, yo.
Look, [F#] I'm feeling the hip hop.
Corner square, they love the rock.
African from far to get.
Home of the hip hop.
[B] Yellow cap, 50 cap, talent cap.
Hollaback with foreigners in April.
They act like they put the hotter hat.
[F#] Gay thing is starving.
I'm living in naked.
City is a pity hack, but y'all won't make it.
[B] See, I got a plug.
Special where I got it made.
GD playing LeBron.
I'm paying three [F#] dicey low.
Three-card Marley.
Labor Day parade.
Rest in peace.
But [A#] that's who we're living to.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
[B] New York!
_ Yes!
Concrete jungle where dreams [F#] can make _ _ [C#] you can do.
Do.
Now you're [B] in New York.
That's right.
These streets will make you [F#] feel brand new.
Big lights will [C#] inspire you.
Here in [B] New York, New York, New York
_ _ [F#] Lights and blinding, girl steam blinders
Don't take a step, out of bounds quick the [B] sidelines in
Blind whip, catch your eagles, driftin' like
Catch you leaving, catch you leaving, but come first
Don't fight the [F#] M.O.E.,. caught up in the end trap Then you're in style, and in the whip, pick it's cold And, boy, with your [B] skin out, city of sin On the piteous and with good girls gone bad The city's filled with [F#] them Mommy took a bus trip, now she got a bus stop Everybody wanna ride her just like a [B] bus route Hail Mary to the city you were birthed to Jesus couldn't save you, life stopped when the [F#] church came In the school, graduated to the island Ball plates, strap stops, tickets to the [A#] non-fit And to your mate, you feelin' like the chameleon City never seen, better send fewer [B] aliens In New York, _ _ _ New York, [F#] New York These _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
streets gon' make you [F#] feel brand new _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [B] You're from New York, New York, [F#] New York _ [B] One hand in the air for the big city Streetlights, big trees, [C#] all the pretty No place in the world that [D#m] can walk around With the lighters in the air, [A#] everybody say yeah _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ Concrete jungle with [F#] dreams in May _ _ _ [C#] _ Now [B] you're in New York _ These streets gon' make you [F#] feel brand _ [C#] new Here [B] in the New York _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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