City Boy, Country Born chords by 
Bobby Bare 
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Key: B major•
Verse 1
B
F#sus4
B
F#sus4
B
I look out on
F#
G#m
the grey of New York City
E
B
To see some children playing
F#
in the snow
B
F#
G#m
Cent ral Park in winter should look pretty
E
But New York ain't a place
B
F#
for kids to grow
Verse 2
E
F#
And my memory takes me back again
B
G#m
to winters that I've seen
E
F#
Fields and wooded hills where snow
B
G#m
could fall and keep it's clean
E
F#
Where I'd wake unto the won der of
B
F#
G#m
B
E
the West Vir ginia morn'
F#
B
City boy, country born
F#sus4
B
Verse 3
F#sus4
B
F#
And I watch the garbage scows
G#m
plow up the river
E
B
F#
Filled with things New Yorkers throw away
B
I watch the skinny dipping
F#
D#m
G#m
chil dren and I shiver
B
E
Lord, that Hudson River
B
ain't no place to play
F#
Verse 4
E
F#
And my memory takes me back again
B
G#m
to rivers that I've seen
E
F#
Lazy country rivers that just
B
G#m
flow and feed the green
E
F#
You can fish 'em, you can drink 'em,
B
D#m
G#m
B
E
you can swim 'em when you're warm
F#
B
City boy, country born
F#sus4
C
Verse 5
G
C
Em
And I see the heart at New
Am
York City moth ers
C
F
As they hurry home across
C
G
the Brooklyn Bridge
C
To feed their children dixie cups
G
Em
Am
of instant cof fee
F
C
And frozen TV dinners front the fridge
G
Verse 6
F
G
And my memory takes me back again
C
Am
to dinners that I've seen
F
G
Home cured crispy ba con,
C
Am
buttered corn and country beans
F
G
And a cup of mama's cof fee,
C
Em
Am
F
cooking stoves that kept me warm
G
C
Am
City boy, country born
Verse 7
F
G
C
Am
Oh, big city boy, country born
Yeah, big city boy
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB F#sus4 F# G#m E...
B
F#sus4
F#
G#m
E
D#m
C
G
Em
Am
F
Capo: 4
Transpose: 0
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