New York New York chords by Grandmaster Flash
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Intro 1
(G minor)
(F major)
(G minor) (D major) (G minor) (D minor) (G minor)
(F major) (G minor) (F major) (G minor) (D major)
(A major)
Verse 1
New (D major) York New York,
(G minor) big city of dreams
And everything in New York ain't
always (F major) what it seem (D major) s
You might get fooled if you
come from out of town
But I'm down by law and I
know (D major) my way around (D major)
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Verse 2
Too (D major) much, too many people,
too much (D major) (aha- ha)
Too much, too many people,
(D major) too much, (A major) (D major) Raaah!
Verse 3
A castle in the sky, one mile high (G minor)
(D major) Built to shelter the rich and greedy (G minor)
Rows (F major) of (D minor) eyes, disguised as (D major) windows
Looking down on the poor and the needy
Miles of people, (D minor) marching (G minor) up the avenue
(D major) Doin? what they gotta do, just to get by
I'm (G minor) living (D major) in the land of plenty and many
But I'm damn sure poor
and I don't know why
Verse 4
Too much, (D major) (D minor) too many (D major) people,
too much (F major)
Too much, too many people, (A minor)
too (D major) much!
Verse 5
(A major) (D major)
A man's on a ledge,
(D minor) says (D major) he's gonna jump
People gather round, said,
"He won't he's just a chump"
?Cause (D major) he lost his job, then he got robbed
His mortgage is due and
his marriage is through
(G major) He says he (D major) ain't gonna (D minor)
pay (F major) (D minor) no child support
(D major) Because the bitch left him
without a second thought
He (G minor) got nothing (A major) (A minor) to eat, (D major) no (A minor) shoes on (D major) his (A minor) feet
(D major) She even left his clothes out in (F major) the street (G major)
He (D minor) keeps (F major) hearing (D minor) noises
when he's (D major) at home
He always hears voices
when he's all alone (D major)
His wife took the kids, the car and the crib
In this man's world,
so much for Women's Lib
(D major) New York
Verse 6
(F major) New (G minor) York big city (G major) of dream (D major) s
But everything in New York
ain't al (B flat major) ways what it seems
(F major) You might get (G minor) fooled (F major) if you
(G major) come from (D major) out of town
But I'm down by law,
and I know my way around (A major)
Verse 7
(D major) Down in the Village,
you might think I'm silly
But you can't tell the women from
the men sometimes (D major)
They're sugar and spice
and everything nice
But when you get ?em home ain't
no telling (A minor) what you (G major) find
(D major) Right next door is a little old man
I seen him eating dog food out of a can
He (F major) says, "I (D major) got to eat, (F major)
when (D minor) I can't (A minor) afford (D major) meat
(A minor) I (D major) barely can stand, on my own two feet
I got (D major) a bad habit and I just
can't break it
Something?s on my mind
and I just can't shake it
I (D major) need some time,
and I want some space
I gotta get away from the human (A minor) race?
(G minor) Too much,
Verse 8
(F major) (G minor) too (G major) many people,
(D major) too much (F major) (aha- ha)
Too much, (G minor) too many (D major) people,
too much! (A major) (D major) Raaah!
Verse 9
Staring at a skyscraper (D major)
reaching into heaven
When over in the ghetto
I'm livin' in hell (D major)
Just play ball or be an entertainer
'Cause niggaz like me
can't (C major) read too (G minor) well
Nobody (G major) (D major) (D minor) loves (D major) me, nobody cares
I dreamed about a life but I'm
livin' in a nightmare
Paranoid schizo, set back, snowbound
Bad news psycho, heart attack,
breakdown!
Verse 10
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, (D major) Hee,
(A major) (D major) Huh, Hee, HUH!
Verse 11
If (D major) only (D minor) I could sleep just ten more minutes (A minor)
(D major) I might find the strength
to make another day
(C major) If I did (D major) n't have to get up and (D minor) do my (D major) thing
I would probably sleep my
whole life away (D major)
I messed up a nice dream,
somethin' bout ice cream
Whipped cream,
fruits and a cherry on top (D major)
Now I gotta get up and face the world,
huh
The pressure is on,
It ain't never (F major) gonna stop (G major)
I sho' (D minor) gotta learn to use my mind
I don't (D major) want to be kissing
nobody's behind
Just standin' (F major) (D minor) on line lookin' like (D major) a jerk
Gotta get off my butt and
do a full day's work
(D major) I ran into a (D minor) pothole, got
in (D major) to a car crash
Should?a been thinking and
tried to fake whiplash
A crowd (D major) gathered (D minor) round,
they're (D major) callin' me fat (G minor)
Who you lookin' at with a face like that?
(C major) New
Verse 12
(F major) York New (G minor) York big
city (G major) of dreams
Everything (D major) in New York ain't
always what it seems (G minor)
(F major) You might (G major) get fooled if you
come from out of (D major) town
But I'm down by law
and I know (A major) my way (D major) around
Verse 13
On 42nd Street, lookin' for some (A minor) action
(D major) Wo men standing on the corner
selling satisfaction
(D major) One young punk just leaning on the fence
Tryin' to make a (D major) dollar
out of fifteen (G major) cents
(D minor) Really is a (D major) prankster, tried
to be a gangster
Real big wheel when a gun is in his hands
(D major) Just did a stick- up, just got picked up
One dead punk, killed by the man
Verse 14
New (F major) York New (G minor) York big city
of dreams
And everything in New York
ain't always what it seem
You (F major) might get (G minor) fooled if you
(G major) come from out of town
But I'm down by law
and I know my way around
Verse 15
Too (F major) much, (G minor) too many people, (G major)
too (D major) much (ha ha ha ha)
Too (F major) much, (G major) too many people,
too (D major) much! Huh!
Verse 16
A baby cries and a (D major) mother dies
And the tears fall from
the doctor's eyes
Because (D major) in this room, on this day
The Good Lord has giveth,
and taketh away, huh!
The (D major) gift of life really means a lot
And in the ghetto your life is all you got
So you take to the (D major) streets,
try (A minor) ing to exist
In the trash and slime of a world like this
What you (D major) watch on TV tells you
what life is supposed to be
But when you look outside (D major)
the only thing you see
Is the poverty stricken reality,
Heh!
Abandoned places, (D major) angry faces
Much hate and hunger
throughout the races
You say, "I'm grown (D major) and I'm on my own
So why don't everybody just
leave me alone!"
Now you stay at home, (D minor)
talking on the (D major) phone
Doin' ninety miles an hour
in the fifty mile zone
They never took the time
to tell you ?bout sex
So you had to learn about
it in the discotheques
Nine months later, the baby is there
And the Nigga that did it said,
"I don't care!"
You don't have enough
(D major) money to help (D minor) feed two
So you have to choose
between the baby and you
The (D major) sky was crying, rain and hail
When you put your baby
in the garbage pail
Then you kissed the kid (D major) and put down the lid
And you tried to forget
what you just did, Huh!
The muffled scream (D minor) s of a dying baby
Was enough to drive the
young mother crazy
So she ran in the rain trying to
ease the pain
Huh huh, And she drove herself insane
Verse 17
New York New (G major) York big city of dreams
But everything in New York
ain't always what it seem
You (F major) might get (G major) fooled if you
come from out of town
But I'm down by law
and I know my way around
Verse 18
Too (F major) much, (G major) too many people,
too much (haha ha ha)
Too (F major) much, (G minor) too many people,
too (D major) much! HUH!
Verse 19
New York (F major) New (G minor) York big city of dreams
But everything in New York
ain't always what it seem
You (F major) might get (G minor) fooled if you
come from out of town
But I'm down by law
and I know my way around
Verse 20
Too (F major) much, (G minor) too many people,
too much (haha ha ha)
Too much, (G minor) too many people,
too (D major) much (A major)
Outro 1
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New York New York
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