Talking New York Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
This isn't like the usual [D]New York songs.
A lot of the songs you hear nowadays
about [G]New York,
they're all the glamour kind on 42nd Street,
[D]Broadway [G]theatres, you hear
them all the time.
[D]New York, New York, the
wonderful town.
Let's go to New York on
[G]our vacation
and see what a great [C]town it is.
[G]This wasn't written up there
[C]where all those song[G]s are written,
this is written down in the United
[D]States.[G][C][D][G]
Ramblin' out in the wild [C]west
Leavin' [D]the towns that I love the best
I [G]thought I seen some up[C]s and downs
Till I [D]rambled into New York [G]town
Building[C]s goin' down to the
[D]ground[C]
[D]People goin' up to the[G] sky[C][D][G]
Well, I got on the [D]subway,
[C]took a seat
and [D]got off on 42nd Street.
I met this fel[G]la named
[D]Dolores there.
He started rubbin' his
hands through my hair.
I run to 10 hot dog stands,
four movie houses,
and a couple of dancing studios
back on the [G]subway.[C][D][G]
Well, I swung on to my old gui[D]tar
as I grabbed hold of that old
subway car.
from a rockin' road and reelin'
[C]ride
I landed up on the [D]downtown side
[G]Greenwich Vil[C]lage
Folklore Center
[D]Izzy Young Theodore McK[G]ell
[C]Wel[D]l, wal[G]ked down there and I ended up in
[D]one of them coffee houses on the block
And I'd [G]get on the stage, sing and [D]play
A man there say,
come back some other day
Sound like [G]a hillbilly
[C]We want folk singers [D]here[G][C][D][G]
Had a harmonica job, begun to [C]play
Blowing [D]my brains out
for a dollar a day
I blowed in[G]side out [D]an
d upside down
The man there said
he's crazy about the sound
He's [G]raving about it
He's telling [C]all his friends about it
A dollar a [D]day's [G]worth
After weeks and weeks of
hanging [D]around
I finally got a job in New York town
And a bigger place, bigger money too
I even joined the union and paid my dues
[G]Six months [C]in advance[D][G]
Now, some [D]very great man, he [C]once [D]said,
some people rob you with a
fountain pen.
In New York, it didn't take [C]too long
to [D]find out just what he was talking [G]about.
A lot of people [C]don't have
too much food on their [D]tables.
But they got a lot of forks,
a lot of knives.
And they got to cut something,
[G]watch out[C][D][G]
So one morning when the
sun [D]was warm
I rambled out of New York town
Pulled my [G]cap down [D]over my eyes
Headed out for the western [G]skies
So long, New [C]York
[D]Howdy, [G]East Orange![C][D]
[G][C][D][G][Em][C]
[D][G]
APPLAUSE