Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:11:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Smith
Jim croce: new york’s not for me
Intro: A Amaj7 A7 F# Bm Fm A *(notes)
A Amaj7 A7 F#
Things are spinning round me and all my thoughts were cloudy
Bm Fm A *(notes)
And i had begun to doubt all the things that were me
A Amaj7 A7 F#
Being in so many places you know i’ve run so many races
Bm Fm A
I’ve looked into the empty faces of the people of the night
F#m A F#m
Something is just not right cause i know that i’ve got
A F#m A F#m
To get out of here i’m so alone don’t you know that i got
Bm__ (A A/D A A7)
To get out of here cause new york’s not my home
A Amaj7 A7 F#
Though all the streets are crowded there’s something strange
Bm Fm A
About it i’ve lived there about a year and i never once felt
*(notes) A Amaj7 A7
At home i thought i made the big time i learned a lot
F# Bm
Of lessons off the quick and know i’m telling you that they were
Fm A F#m
Not the nice kind it’s been so long since i have felt fine
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
(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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