A (x02220@1)                    CNew (x32010@1)York City! (uh huh.) Centre of the universe. (sing it, girl)
A (x02220@1)                      CTimes (x32010@1)are shitty, but I'm pretty sure they can't get worse. (I hear ya.)
A (x02220@1)                               CIt's (x32010@1)a comfort to know, when you're singing the "Hit the Road Blues"
     A (x02220@1)                                      C (x32010@1)           N/C
That anywhere else you could possibly go after New York would be:
N/C
A Pleasure cruise.

A (x02220@1)                           CNow (x32010@1)you're Talkin'. (collins's trademark evil laugh, lol muahaha)
         A (x02220@1)                     CWell (x32010@1)I'm thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle
        A (x02220@1)                           CAnd (x32010@1)I'm sick of gradin' papers, that I know.
    A (x02220@1)                          CI'm (x32010@1)shouting in my sleep I need a muzzle
    A (x02220@1)                           CAnd (x32010@1)all this misery pays no salary so

Chorus:
C (x32010@1)                    Gadd9 (135211@3)      A (x02220@1)  
Let's Open up a restaurant in   Santa Fe
 C (x32010@1)                  Gadd9 (135211@3)      A (x02220@1)  Sunny Santa Fe Would be Nice
   C (x32010@1)                     Gadd9 (135211@3)      A (x02220@1)   Let's Open up a Restaurant in Santa Fe
  C (x32010@1)                           Gadd9 (135211@3)     E (022100@1)         A (x02220@1)
And leave this to the roaches and mice.
   Cadd9 (x32030@1)      Dadd9 (x43141@2)      G (320003@1)          Cadd9 (x32030@1)  Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
      F (133211@1)         E (022100@1)                A (x02220@1)                     C (x32010@1)
  Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

A (x02220@1)                     CYou (x32010@1)teach? Yeah, I teach Computer age philosophy
        A (x02220@1)                              CWhen (x32010@1)my students would rather watch T.V.? America. (America)
         Asus2 (x02200@1)                       CYou're (x32010@1)a sensitive aesthete, Brush the sauce onto the meat
        Asus2 (x02200@1)                      CYou (x32010@1)can make the menu sparkle with a rhyme
        Am9 (x02413@1)                     Cadd9You (x32030@1)can drum a gentle drum, I can seat guests as they come
         Am9 (x02413@1)                   Cadd9Chatting (x32030@1)not about Heidegger but wine.
   C (x32010@1)                   Gadd9 (135211@3)      ALet's (x02220@1)open up a restaurant in   Santa Fe
 C (x32010@1)                         Gadd9 (135211@3)      A (x02220@1)Our labours would reap financial gain
    C (x32010@1)                    Gadd9 (135211@3)      A (x02220@1)  We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
C (x32010@1)                     Gadd9 (135211@3)     E (022100@1)         A7And (x02020@1)save from devastation our brains (save our brains)
 Cadd9 (x32030@1)                     Gadd9 (135211@3)           AWe'll (x02220@1)pack up all our junk and fly so far away
Cadd9 (x32030@1)                   Gadd9 (135211@3)        ADevote (x02220@1)ourselves to projects that sell
Cadd9 (x32030@1)             Gadd9 (135211@3)       AWe'll (x02220@1)open up a restaurant in Santa Fe
Cadd9 (x32030@1)       Gadd9 (135211@3)      E (022100@1)         AForget (x02220@1)this cold bohemian hell
Cadd9 (x32030@1)      Dadd9 (x43141@2)     Gadd9 (135211@3)       Cadd9Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (x32030@1)Fadd9 (135211@1)     E (022100@1)          AOhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (x02220@1)         (whoa oh oh oh whoa oh oh)
Cadd9 (x32030@1)      Dadd9 (x43141@2)     Gadd9 (135211@3)       Cadd9Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (x32030@1)Fadd9 (135211@1)     E (022100@1)          Aadd9Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (x02420@1) Cadd9 (x32030@1)                           Aadd9 (x02420@1)           Cadd9yeah (x32030@1)yeah yeah        mmhmm      *strange nasal sounds*

   Aadd9 (x02420@1)                     Cadd9 (x32030@1)  Do    you   know   the    way        To Santa Fe?
   Aadd9 (x02420@1)                     Cadd9 (x32030@1)        You know; tumbleweeds...   prairie dawwwwwgs.
   Aadd9 (x02420@1)                     Cadd9(ritando) (x32030@1)   Yeaaah.           

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