On The Road (In New York Town) chords by Rod MacDonald
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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New York time,
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it's a quarter past four
Good night shows over,
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over, here's a door
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Your song, have a tune, you know,
and a couple more
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Ain't there some place left
you ain't been before?
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You're on the road in
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New York Town
You've been on the highway
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and they're all your friends
They give you rides, meals, hires, money,
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wave around the bend
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Now you're walking round,
you're standing in a mob
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Lining up on Friday for a
Wednesday job
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You're on the road
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In New York town
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You got an apartment,
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you can call it home
But there's no one there
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and you don't want to be alone
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You're walking around
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looking for romance
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You're like a telephone
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that no one answers on the road
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In New York town
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Oh, letting lovers out, wish I was you
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Puddling the subway,
making one out of two
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Bright lights, splatter, screech,
brakes drowning out
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Old drunk singing,
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can you help a fella out?
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I'm on the road
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In New York town
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Strip bicycles, bombs,
hunger everywhere
You got a bank account,
but it's nothing but air
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Anywhere the vampires are,
all around the banks
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All night machine looking for
someone to fang
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And they're on the road in New York
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town
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Long black limousine, Katharine DeNugget
Put your hand on the window
and a cop says move
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Bag lady peeking in a store doorway
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This time the cop's got nothing to say
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Yes, she's on the road in New
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York town
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Asshole tourist, struggle with the chicks
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Breaks his big beer bottle on a bridge
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Drives his big car home
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after blowing all his cash
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Says the trouble in New York
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is there's too much trash
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Yeah, she's on the road in New York town
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What you wouldn't give
for someone to hold
But you had somebody
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and you turned her cold
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And there was one in Georgia
but this is New York again
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Nobody can hold you in the States
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You're in, you're on the road
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In New York town
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Yeah, you got a warm bed,
but that's inside
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And there's bars on the window
and the moon is high
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Gonna go to the square,
you can sleep outside
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Some guys are already there,
but they won't mind
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They're on the go
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In New York town
Oh, you can't sleep,
what are you gonna do?
You can go to the river,
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you can stare at the pier
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You've been going to the river
now
for seventeen nights
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It's the only thing that'll
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you feel alright
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You're on the road
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In New Yorktown
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Ah, New York Town
and it's a quarter past four
Good night shows over, over,
here's the door
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You've sung every tune you know
and a couple more
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Ain't there some place left you
ain't been before?
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You're on the road
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In New York Town
Interlude 1
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Gsus4
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Verse 2
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I'm not sure what
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Thank you for
You
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On The Road (In New York Town)
Rod MacDonald
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