American Dreams Suite: City Boy chords by Jesse Colin Young
Intro 1
Em
Verse 1
Em
I was raised in the heart of the city
A
Angry with life for being so pretty
Em
Raised on a cushion of
middle class money
A
Kept from the bitter by my taste of honey
Em
A
D
Am
Oh city boy, oh city boy
Em
A city of cold eyes, a city of nowheres
A
People are pushing and
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A
straining to get there
Em
A city of friends lost, a city of laughter
Asus4
A
A strange combination of
Asus4
hope and disaster
A
Em
A
Am
Oh city boy, oh city boy
C
D
Em
Oh, boy, what's in your soul?
Am
C
City boy, say what's in your soul?
D
Can you slide around life's hairpin corners?
C
B
Em
Or will you lose control?
Am
C
City boy, say what's in your name?
D
And you rush to make the
winner's circle
C
B
Em
Have you ignored the flames?
Am
C
Am
C
Em
Ah, city boy, city boy
C
D
You'll search for fame and fortune
C
B
Em
If you ignore the pain
A
Em
Ah -ha, city boy
Ah -ha, city boy
Ah -ha -ha -ha -ha -ha -ha -ha
City boy
We are animals of pleasure
G
Searching for delight
A
Crawling through the neon
C
Of a life ever coming night
B
Em
Bellies that are empty
G
Eyes that shine bright
A
Souls that live in darkness
C
B
Em
Yearning for the light,
C
yearning for the light
The ocean
D
Em
Yes, we are yearning,
C
yearning for the light
The ocean
D
Em
C
We are burning, yearning for the light
The ocean
D
Em
Yes, I am burning
C
Yearning for the light
D
Yearning for the light
Em
Yearning for the light
D
C
Yearning for the light
D
Yearning for the light
Em
Yearning for the light
C
Yearning for the light
D
Yearning for the light
F
C
F
C
Yearning for the light
F
C
I'm lost on this road again,
G
Dm
I find myself without a friend.
F
C
High in my lonely sky
G
Dm
I find that I have flown
D
Am
Too high to lay
D
Ooh, too high to lay
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Interlude 1
Am
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Dm
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G
Dm
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Dm
Am
D
Verse 2
Am
D
Am
Oh, too high
F
G
Am
How do you get this high?
F
I remember
American Dreams Suite: City Boy
Jesse Colin Young
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