Intro
[E] [Amaj7]
Ooohh New York x2
Verse 1
[E] [Amaj7]
Grew up in a town that is famous as the place of movie scenes
[E] [Amaj7]
Noise is always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are mean
[E] [Amaj7]
If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that's what they say
[E] [Amaj7]
Seeing my face in lights or my name in marquees found down on Broadway
Pre-chorus
[G#]
Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams
Chorus
[Amaj7]
Baby, I'm from New York
[E]
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[B]
There's nothing you can't do
[Amaj7]
Now you're in New York
[E]
These streets will make you feel brand new
[B]
Big lights will inspire you
[Amaj7]
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!
Verse 2
[E] [Amaj7]
On the avenue, there ain't never a curfew, ladies work so hard
[E] [Amaj7]
Such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God
[E] [Amaj7]
Hail a gypsy cab, takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge
[E] [Amaj7]
Some will sleep tonight with a hunger for more than an empty fridge
Pre-chorus
[G#]
I'm gonna make it by any means, I got a pocketful of dreams
Chorus
[Amaj7]
Baby, I'm from New York
[E]
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[B]
There's nothing you can't do
[Amaj7]
Now you're in New York
[E]
These street will make you feel brand new
[B]
Big lights will inspire you
[A]
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!
[Amaj7]
One hand in the air for the big city,
[B]
Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty
[C#m]
No place in the world that can compare
[G#]
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Chorus
[Amaj7]
In New York
[E]
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[B]
There's nothing you can't do
[A]
Now you're in New York
[E]
These streets will make you feel brand new
[B]
Big lights will inspire you
[Amaj7] [E]
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!