Ed Sheeran plays this in half-step down tuning (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb eb)
but this tab is for standard tuning (E A D G B e).
You can transpose up one half-step if you want to play this in the
original tuning. Use standard tuning chord shapes.
[Verse 1]
B
Yeah, I'm out of Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
Right next to DeNiro but I’ll be hood forever
E
I’m the new Sinatra and since I made it here
I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
B
I used to cop in Harlem, hola my Dominicanos
Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonalds
E
Took it to my stash spot, 560 State street
F#
Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping pastry
B
Cruising down 8th street
Off-white Lexus driving so slow but BK is from Texas
E
Me I’m out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[Pre-Chorus]
F# G#m
Say what up to TyTy, still sipping mai tais
F#
Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives
D#
Homie I be Spiked out, I can trip a referee
Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from
[Chorus]
E
New York
F# G#m
Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
B
There's nothing you can’t do
E
Now you’re in New York
F# G#m
These streets will make you feel brand new
B
Big lights will inspire you
E
Now you're in New York, New York, New York
[Verse 2]
F# B
Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
Yeah, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
E
You should know I bleed Blue, but I'm not a Crip, though
But I got a gang of people walking with my clique though
F# B
Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we selling rocks
Afrika Bambaataa stuff, home of the hip-hop
E
Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
For foreigners it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to add
F# B
8 million stories out there in the naked
City, it's a pity half of y’all won’t make it
E
Me I gotta plug Special Ed "I Got It Made"
If Jeezy's paying LeBron, I’m paying Dwyane Wade
[Pre-Chorus]
F# G#m
3 dice Cee-lo, 3 card Marley
F#
Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
D#
Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade
Long live the king yo, I’m from the Empire of
[Chorus]
E
New York
F# G#m
Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
B
There's nothing you can’t do
E
Now you’re in New York
F# G#m
These streets will make you feel brand new
B
Big lights will inspire you
E
Now you're in New York, New York, New York
[Bridge 1]
E
Lights is blinding, the girls need blinders
F#
So they can step out of bounds quick
G#m
The side lines is lined with casualties
B
Who sip the life casually, then gradually become worse
Don’t bite the apple, Eve
E
Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in-style
F#
And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out
G#m
The city of sin is a pity on a whim
B
Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with 'em
E
Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out
F#
Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
G#m
"Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin
B
And Jesus can’t save you, life starts when the church ends
E
Brought up in school, graduated to the high life
F#
Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
D#
got you feeling like a champion
The city never sleeps, better slip you a Ambien
[Chorus]
E
In New York
F# G#m
Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
B
There's nothing you can’t do
E
Now you’re in New York
F# G#m
These streets will make you feel brand new
B
Big lights will inspire you
E
Now you're in New York, New York, New York
[Bridge 2]
E
One hand in the air for the big city
Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty
F#
No place in the world that can compare
G#m D#
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say "yeah!"
[Chorus]
E
New York
F# G#m
Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
B
There's nothing you can’t do
E
Now you’re in New York
F# G#m
These streets will make you feel brand new
B
Big lights will inspire you
E F#
Now you're in New York, New York, New York
[Outro]
G#m
New York
F# E
Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
There's nothing you can’t do
G#m
Now you’re in New York
F# E
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
E F#
Now you're in New York
G#m B
Now you're in New York
E F#
Now you're in New York