Chords for Jim Croce | Maury Muehleisen - New York's Not My Home | Lyrics Meaning

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Things [C#] were spinning round me, [G] _ _ [F#m] and all my thoughts were [C] cloudy, [Bm] _ and [G] I [F] had [Bm] begun to doubt
all [A] the things that were me.
[B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ Been [G#m] in so many places, [G] you know I've run [F#m] so [C#] many [C] races.
[Bm] _ _ Looked [F] into the [Dm] empty faces [A] of the people of the night, [F#m] and something [E] is just [A] not right,
cause I know [F#m] that I gotta get out [A] of here.
_ I'm [F#m] so alone.
_ [A] _ Don't you know [F#m] that I gotta get out [D] of here, cause New York's not [A] my home.
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[A] _ _ _ [G#m] Though all the streets are crowded, [G] _ _ _ [F#] there's something strange about [Bm] it.
_ I lived [F] there about a year, and I never [A] once felt at home.
[E] [A] I _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] thought I'd make the big [C#] time, I learned a lot of [F#] lessons awful quick, and now I'm
[Bm] telling you [F] that they were not the nice [A] kind.
It has been so [F#m] long since I have [E] felt fine, [A] and that's the [F#m] reason that I gotta get out [A] of here.
_ _ I'm so [F#m] alone. _
[A] _ Don't you [F#m] know that I gotta get out of here, cause New [A] York's not my home. _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ That's the [F#m] reason that I gotta get out [A] of here.
_ _ [F#m] I'm so alone.
_ _ [A] Don't you know [F#m] that I gotta get out [D] of here, cause New York's [A] not my home.
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