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Empire State Of Mind Chords

Capo: 2nd fret
No capo: F#

[Verse]
 
                       E
Yeah, Yeah, Im'ma up at Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
 
Right next to DeNiro, But I’ll be hood forever
            A
I’m the new Sinatra, and since I made it here
 
I can make it anywhere, yeah they love me everywhere
                 E
I used to cop in Harlem, all of my dominicanos
 
Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's
              A
Took it to my stash spot, Five Sixty Stage street
 
Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping pastry
              E
Cruising down 8th street, off white Lexus
 
Driving so slow but BK is from Texas
             A
Me I’m up at Bedsty, home of that boy Biggie
 
Now i live on billboard, and i brought my boys with me
               E
Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping Malta
 
Sitting court-side Knicks and Nets give me high fives
           A#
N-gga I be spiked out, I can trip a referee
 
Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from
 
 
[Chorus]
 
   A
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
The lights will inspire you
                           A
Let's here it for New York, New York, New York
 
 
[Verse]
 
I made you hot n-gga
                E
Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
 
Sh-t I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
                  A
You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain't a crip tho
 
But I got a gang of n-ggas walking with my click though
               E
welcome to the melting pot, corners where we selling rocks
 
Afrika Bambaataa sh-t, home of the hip hop
            A
Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cab, holla back
 
For foreigners it ain't fitted they forgot how to act
              E
Eight million stories out there and their naked
 
Cities is a pity half of y’all won’t make it
          A
Me I gotta plug a special and i got it made
 
If Jesus payin' LeBron, I’m paying Dwayne Wade
 
Three dice Cee-Lo, three card marley
 
Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley,
          A#
Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade
 
Long live the king yo, I’m from the Empire State that's
 
 
[Chorus]
 
   A
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
The lights will inspire you
                           A
Let's here it for New York, New York, New York
 
 
[Verse]
 
E
Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
 
So they can step out of bounds quick, the side lines is
A
Blind with casualties,who sipping life casually
 
Then gradually become worse, don’t bite the apple Eve
E
Caught up in the in crowd, now your in-style
 
And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out
A
The city of sin is a pity on a whim
 
Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them
E
Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out
 
Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
A
Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin
 
And Jesus can’t save you life starts when the church ends
E
Came here for school, graduated to the high life
 
Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
G#
MDMA got you feeling like a champion
 
The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien
 
 
[Chorus]
 
   A
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
The lights will inspire you
                           A
Let's here it for New York, New York, New York
 
 
[Bridge]
 
A
One hand in the air for the big city
 
Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty
B
No place in the World that can compare
C#m                                         G#
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah
 
Come on, come, yeah
 
 
[Chorus]
 
   A
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
The lights will inspire you
                           A
Let's here it for New York, New York, New York

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