New Yorks Not For Me

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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:11:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Smith 

 

jim croce: new york's not for me

intro:  
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 Amaj7 
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 F# 
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 Fm 
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  things are spinning round me   and all my thoughts were cloudy

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  and i had begun to doubt all the things that were me

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  being in so many places   you know i've run so many races

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  i've looked into the empty faces of the people of the night

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  something is  just not right      cause i know that i've got
                       
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  to get out of here    i'm so alone    don't you know that i got
                             
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 A7)
  to get out of here   cause new york's not my home

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  though all the streets are crowded   there's something strange
              
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  about it    i've lived there about a year and i never once felt
         *(notes)  
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  at home           i thought i made the big time   i learned a lot
                     
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  of lessons off the quick and know i'm telling you that they were
  
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  not the nice kind    it's been so long since i have felt fine

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  that's the reason that i've got to get out of here   i'm so alone

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  don't you know that i got to get out of here
        
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  cause new york's not my home

(interlude)  chords: (2x) 
 A 
 Amaj7 
 A7 
 F# 
 Bm 
 Fm 
 A  *(notes)


 A                             
 F#m                     
 A       
 F#m
  that's the reason that i've got to get out of here   i'm so alone

 A                       
 F#m
  don't you know that i got to get out of here
        
 Bm__
  cause new york's not my home

chords: (2x) 
 A 
 Amaj7 
 A7 
 F# 
 Bm 
 Fm 
 A  *(notes)

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