Key: F major•
Intro 1
Bb
F
Bb
F
C
Bb
F
C
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Bb
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C
Verse 1
C
F
Somewhere way out in the sticks
Guitar across his shoulder
Bb
F
He was staring in my headlights
C
F
When I come around the bend
C
Gsus4
And told me with a grin
Verse 2
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C
F
to New York City
Bb
F
I never really been there
Bb
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C
F
I heard the girls are pretty
Verse 3
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He was cold and wet and hungry
F
Bb
Said he'd come a thou
Bb
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He had a hundred stories
C
F
About the places that he'd been
Bb
F
He'd hang around a little while
Verse 4
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C
F
He's going to New York City
Bb
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I never really been there
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C
F
He heard the girls are pretty
C
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C
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It's just too big a town
Bb
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Interlude 1
C
Bb
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C
F
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C
Verse 5
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See I've been to New York City
F
Bb
I was standing like a pilgrim
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C
F
But they wouldn't talk to me
Verse 6
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So, I thought I'd better warn him
C
F
When he climbed out of my car
Bb
F
Grabbed his battered suitcase
Bb
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I knew I was just jealous
F
Bb
F
I slipped the kid a twenty
Bb
C
Said 'Billy give 'em hell'
Verse 7
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C
F
He's going to New York City
Bb
F
I never really been there
Bb
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C
F
He heard the girls are pretty
Verse 8
Bb
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C
F
He's going to New York City
Bb
F
I never really been there
Bb
F
C
F
He heard the girls are pretty
Bb
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There must be something happening there
C
Bb
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It's just too big a town
C
F
Verse 9
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C
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goin' to New York City
Interlude 2
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C
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C
Verse 10
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Bb
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Going to New York City
C
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Bb
C
Outro 1
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Bb
C
Bb
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C
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb F C Gsus4
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