Chords for New York New York

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[Em] I'm going to sing a song called New York, New [F#] York.
I'm going to sing a song called _ New [E] York, New York.
I'm going to sing a song called _ _ New York, New York.
I'm going to sing a song called [B] New York, New York.
I'm going to sing a song called New York, New York.
I'm going to sing a song called [Em] New York, [F#] New York.
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_ _ [D#] _ [E] I'm _ _ _
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_ _ [B] going _ _ _ _
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_ _ [B] _ [E] to _ _ _ _ sing a song called New York, New York.
He said he won't, he's just a chump, because he lost his job.
Then he got robbed, his mortgage is due, and his marriage is through.
[Em] He says he ain't going to pay no child support, [E] because the bitch left him without a second thought.
He got nothing to eat, no shoes on his feet.
She [G] even left his clothes out in the street.
[E] He keeps hearing noises when he's at home.
He always hears voices when he's all alone.
His wife and the kids, the car and the crib.
In this man's world, so much for women's [G] lives.
New [A] York, New York, big [F#] city of dreams.
But everything in New York [G] ain't always what it seems.
You [A] might get [E] fooled if you come from out of town, but I'm [B] down by the Lord.
I know my way around.
[E] Down in the village, you might think I'm silly, but you can't tell the women from the men sometimes.
There's [F#] sugar and spice and everything [E] nice, but when you get them home, ain't no telling what you'll find.
Right next [F#] door is a little old man.
I seen him eating dog food out of a can.
He says, I got to eat when I can't afford meat.
[E] I barely can stand on my own two feet.
I got [B] a bad habit, and I just can't [E] break it.
Something's on my mind, and I [B] just can't shake it.
I [E] need some time, and I want some space.
I got [B] to get away from the human [G] race.
Too [A] much, too many people.
[E] Too much, _ [G] too [E] much.
Too many people, too much.
_ Crap!
Staring at the sky, slipping, reaching into heaven.
When over in the ghetto, I'm living in hell.
[B] Just play ball or be an entertainer, cause niggas like me can't read too well.
Nobody loves me, nobody [E] cares.
I dream about a life, but I'm living in a nightmare.
Paranoid, so set back, snowbound, [B] bad news, psycho, heart attack, [Em] breakdown!
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_ [B] _ _ [E] If only I could sleep just ten more minutes, I might find the strength to make another day.
If I [F#] didn't have to get up and do my thing, [E] I would probably sleep my whole life away.
I messed up a nice dream, something about ice cream with green fruits and a cherry on top.
Now [F#m] I got to get up and face the world.
[E] The pressure is on, it ain't never gonna stop.
I sure gotta learn to use my mind.
I don't wanna be kissing nobody's behind.
Just standing on a line looking like a jerk.
Gotta get off my butt and do a full day's work.
I ran into a pothole, got into a car crash.
Should've been thinking to try the fake whip, blast a crowd gathering round.
They calling me fat.
Who you looking at with a face like that?
New [A] York ain't your big city of dreams.
[B] Everything in New York [G] ain't always what it seems.
You might [A] get [F#] booed if you come from out of town, but if down by a [B] thorn, I know it's my way [E] around.
On 42nd Street looking for some action.
Women standing on the corner selling satisfaction.
One young punk just leaning on a fence, trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.
Really is a prankster, trying to be a gangster.
Real big wheel when the gun is in his hand.
Just to the stick up, just got picked up.
One dead [B] punk killed by a [G] man.
New [A] York, New York, big city of dreams.
[Bm] And everything in New York ain't [G] always what it seems.
You might [A] get [C#] booed if you come from out of town, but if [E] down by a thorn, I know it's my way around.
Too [A] much, too many [E] people, too much.
Ha ha [G] ha ha, too [A] much, [E] too many people, too much.
[B] _ [E] A baby cries and a mother dies and the tears fall from the doctor's eyes.
Because in this room, on [F#] this day, the good Lord has given.
Take it away, [E] the gift of life really means a lot.
And in the ghetto your life is all you got.
So you take to the streets, trying to exist in the trash and slime of a world like this.
What you watch on TV tells you what life is supposed to be.
But when you look outside, the only thing you see is a poverty [B] stricken reality.
Abandoned places, angry faces, [E] much hate and hunger throughout the races.
You say I'm grown and I'm on my own, so why don't everybody just leave me alone.
Now you stay at home, talking on the phone, doing 90 miles an hour in the 50 mile zone.
They never took the time to tell you about sex, so you had [G] to learn about it in the [Em] discotheque.
Nine months later, the baby is there [E] and the nigga that did it said,
I don't care, you don't have [Em] enough money to help feed two, [E] so you have to choose between the baby and you.
The sky was crying, rain and hail when you put your baby in the garbage pail.
Then you kissed the kid and put down the lid and you tried to forget [A] what you just did.
[Em] The muffled screams of a dying baby [E] was enough to drive the young mother crazy.
So she [F#] ran in the rain trying to ease the pain [B] and she drove herself insane.
[G] New [A] York, New York, big city of dreams, [E] but everything in New York ain't always what it seems.
You [A] might get [Em] fooled if you come from out of town, [E] but I'm down by law and I know my way around.
[G] Too [A] much, too many people, [E] too much.
_ Too [A] much, [E] too many people, too [B] much.
_ [G] _ _ Man, you [G#m] should see these bad girls.
They got work in the car.
Yo, man, come here, man.
Come here.
[A] Let's try to get the money.
Yo, y'all know this dude?
Look, he's coming right here.
Let's rob him, man.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, Slip, you know your way to Sugar Hill Records?
Hey, man, that's in Jersey, [C] baby.
Come here, man.
What's up?
Hey, man, what's up?
[A#] Hey, man, what's up?
[E] Yo, man, what's up?
[G] New [A] York, New York, big city of dreams, but everything [G] in New York ain't always what it seems.
You [A] might get [F#] fooled if you come from out of town, but I'm [E] down by law and I know my way around.
Too [A] much, too many [E] people, too much.
[G] _ Too much, too many people, too much.
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