Artist: Jim Croce
Song: New York's Not My Home
The song is played in standard tuning (E,A,D,G,B,E)
INTRO
A Amaj7 A7 F# Bm Fm
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1) Guitar only
2) things are spinning round me and all my thoughts were cloudy and i had begun to doubt all the
3) being in so many places you know i've run so many races i've looked into the empty faces of the
A
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things that were me
people of the night
F#m A
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something is just not right cause i know that i've got
CHORUS
F#m A
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to get out of here i'm so alone
F#m A
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don't you know that i got to get out of here
Bm
cause new york's not my home
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verse
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
CHORUS
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
A Amaj7 A7 F# Bm Fm
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A
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CHORUS
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
OUTRO
A Amaj7 A7 F# Bm Fm
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A
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