Key: F major
Intro 1
G
C
D
G
Verse 1
G
Oh, there I stood
C
in the great big city
D
Where the buildings tall and
G
the girls're all pretty
C
Up stepped a man he said, "Come here, son
D
C
D
Eb
C
I got a big deal now if you got the mon'"
I bought the Brooklyn Bridge
D
With two dollars, two cigarettes and an
G
D
autograph picture of Elvis
G
Well, I kept my
Verse 2
C
bridge for a day or so
D
G
But then my money was runnin' low
C
And I tried to make me a sale
D
But the man done come
C
and he took me to jail
Verse 3
C
D
Said I's crazy, laughed at me
G
D
Told me that society frowned upon it
G
Well, then he stood me
C
up in a front of a judge
D
I stood there grinnin' but
G
the judge didn't budge
Verse 4
G
C
He said 30 dollars or 30 days
D
C
And I looked at him and all I could say
Was, "I'd take that 30 dollars,
D
couldn't make that 35, could you?
G
D
Spend all my money on that bridge"
G
Well, after
Verse 5
C
90 days in that man's jail
D
G
I still tryin' to make me a sale
C
Met some cat called Skid Row Pete
D
C
So I traded it off for 52nd Street
D
Big deal, oh big man of action
G
A big transaction
D
Verse 6
G
I bet the folks back home
C
could never realize
D
G
That in a great big town this size
C
Boy like theirs could own the street
D
C
Spend his days just to
keepin' it neat
Verse 7
C
Pickin' up cigarette butts,
D
G
wine bottles
Terrorizing the pedestrians,
shoo them pigeons
I bet old Skid Row Pete
ain't got no pigeons
On that Brooklyn Bridge
And I bet he can't trade that
bridge off either
Because a man gonna come
take him down
Ain't that bad?
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C D Eb
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