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New York New York easy guitar chords by
Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash

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Intro 1
Gm

F

Gm
D
Gm
Dm
Gm

F
Gm
F
Gm
D

A

Verse 1
D

New York New York,
Gm

big city of dreams

And everything in New York ain't
F
D

always what it seems

You might get fooled if you

come from out of town

But I'm down by law and I
D
D

know my way around
Verse 2
D

Too much, too many people,
D

too much (aha- ha)

Too much, too many people,
D
A
D

too much, Raaah!
Verse 3
Gm

A castle in the sky, one mile high
D
Gm

Built to shelter the rich and greedy
F
Dm
D

Rows of eyes, disguised as windows

Looking down on the poor and the needy
Dm
Gm

Miles of people, marching up the avenue
D

Doin? what they gotta do, just to get by
Gm
D

I'm living in the land of plenty and many

But I'm damn sure poor

and I don't know why
Verse 4
D
Dm
D

Too much, too many people,
F

too much
Am

Too much, too many people,
D

too much!
Verse 5
A
D


A man's on a ledge,
Dm
D

says he's gonna jump

People gather round, said,

"He won't he's just a chump"
D

?Cause he lost his job, then he got robbed

His mortgage is due and

his marriage is through
G
D
Dm

He says he ain't gonna
F
Dm

pay no child support
D

Because the bitch left him

without a second thought
Gm
A
Am
D
Am
D
Am

He got nothing to eat, no shoes on his feet
D
F
G

She even left his clothes out in the street
Dm
F
Dm

He keeps hearing noises
D

when he's at home

He always hears voices
D

when he's all alone

His wife took the kids, the car and the crib

In this man's world,

so much for Women's Lib
D
New York
Verse 6
F
Gm
G
D

New York big city of dreams

But everything in New York
Bb

ain't always what it seems
F
Gm
F

You might get fooled if you
G
D

come from out of town

But I'm down by law,
A

and I know my way around
Verse 7
D

Down in the Village,

you might think I'm silly

But you can't tell the women from
D

the men sometimes

They're sugar and spice

and everything nice

But when you get ?em home ain't
Am
G

no telling what you find
D

Right next door is a little old man

I seen him eating dog food out of a can
F
D
F

He says, "I got to eat,
Dm
Am
D

when I can't afford meat
Am
D

I barely can stand, on my own two feet
D

I got a bad habit and I just

can't break it

Something?s on my mind

and I just can't shake it
D

I need some time,

and I want some space
Am

I gotta get away from the human race?
Gm
Too much,
Verse 8
F
Gm
G

too many people,
D
F

too much (aha- ha)
Gm
D

Too much, too many people,
A
D

too much! Raaah!
Verse 9
D

Staring at a skyscraper

reaching into heaven

When over in the ghetto
D

I'm livin' in hell

Just play ball or be an entertainer

'Cause niggaz like me
C
Gm

can't read too well
G
D
Dm
D

Nobody loves 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
D

Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee,
A
D

Huh, Hee, HUH!
Verse 11
D
Dm
Am

If only I could sleep just ten more minutes
D

I might find the strength

to make another day
C
D
Dm
D

If I didn't have to get up and do my thing

I would probably sleep my
D

whole life away

I messed up a nice dream,

somethin' bout ice cream

Whipped cream,
D

fruits and a cherry on top

Now I gotta get up and face the world,

huh

The pressure is on,
F
G

It ain't never gonna stop
Dm

I sho' gotta learn to use my mind
D

I don't want to be kissing

nobody's behind
F
Dm
D

Just standin' on line lookin' like a jerk

Gotta get off my butt and

do a full day's work
D
Dm

I ran into a pothole, got
D

into a car crash

Should?a been thinking and

tried to fake whiplash
D
Dm

A crowd gathered round,
D
Gm

they're callin' me fat

Who you lookin' at with a face like that?
C
New
Verse 12
F
Gm

York New York big
G

city of dreams
D

Everything in New York ain't
Gm

always what it seems
F
G

You might get fooled if you
D

come from out of town

But I'm down by law
A
D

and I know my way around
Verse 13
Am

On 42nd Street, lookin' for some action
D

Wo men standing on the corner

selling satisfaction
D

One young punk just leaning on the fence
D

Tryin' to make a dollar
G

out of fifteen cents
Dm
D

Really is a prankster, tried

to be a gangster

Real big wheel when a gun is in his hands
D

Just did a stick- up, just got picked up

One dead punk, killed by the man
Verse 14
F
Gm

New York New York big city

of dreams

And everything in New York

ain't always what it seem
F
Gm

You might get fooled if you
G

come from out of town

But I'm down by law

and I know my way around
Verse 15
F
Gm
G

Too much, too many people,
D

too much (ha ha ha ha)
F
G

Too much, too many people,
D

too much! Huh!
Verse 16
D

A baby cries and a mother dies

And the tears fall from

the doctor's eyes
D

Because in this room, on this day

The Good Lord has giveth,

and taketh away, huh!
D

The gift of life really means a lot

And in the ghetto your life is all you got
D

So you take to the streets,
Am

trying to exist

In the trash and slime of a world like this
D

What you watch on TV tells you

what life is supposed to be
D

But when you look outside

the only thing you see

Is the poverty stricken reality,

Heh!
D

Abandoned places, angry faces

Much hate and hunger

throughout the races
D

You say, "I'm grown and I'm on my own

So why don't everybody just

leave me alone!"
Dm

Now you stay at home,
D

talking on the 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
Dm

money to help feed two

So you have to choose

between the baby and you
D

The sky was crying, rain and hail

When you put your baby

in the garbage pail
D

Then you kissed the kid and put down the lid

And you tried to forget

what you just did, Huh!
Dm

The muffled screams 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
G

New York New York big city of dreams

But everything in New York

ain't always what it seem
F
G

You might get fooled if you

come from out of town

But I'm down by law

and I know my way around
Verse 18
F
G

Too much, too many people,

too much (haha ha ha)
F
Gm

Too much, too many people,
D

too much! HUH!
Verse 19
F
Gm

New York New York big city of dreams

But everything in New York

ain't always what it seem
F
Gm

You might get fooled if you

come from out of town

But I'm down by law

and I know my way around
Verse 20
F
Gm

Too much, too many people,

too much (haha ha ha)
Gm

Too much, too many people,
D
A

too much
Outro 1
F


F
D
Dm
D


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