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New York New York chords by 
Grandmaster Flash 
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Key: E major•BPM: 200
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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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F
D
Dm
D
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