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I Wouldn't Live In New York City

Buck Owens

RockMedium for beginners6 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
G7
C7×
F
A7×
D7××

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              C                                                                 G7 
It ain't nothin' but a concrete jungle with people packed like sardines 
 
                                              C 
Where everybody's tryin' to live beyond their means 
 
                                C7             F 
Where all the natives hurry and scurry too and fro 
 
                      C     A7       D7     G7       C 
And like a fleas on a puppy dog they got no place to go 
 
 
                                                                G7 
I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town 
 
                                         C 
Talk about a bummer it's the biggest one around 
 
                            C7        F 
Sodom and Gomorrah was tame to what I found 
 
                            C    A7      D7          G7         C 
I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town 
 
 
                                                      G7 
Well I ain't seen the sunshine since the day that I arrived 
 
                                            C 
Cause brother I've been busy a-tryin' to survive 
 
                                              C7         F 
Nobody knows you've been here till you're six feet under ground 
 
                  C         A7      D7          G7        C 
Than you become a statistic if they remember to write you down 
 
 
                                                                G7 
I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town 
 
                                         C 
Talk about a bummer it's the biggest one around 
 
                            C7        F 
Sodom and Gomorrah was tame to what I found 
 
                            C    A7      D7          G7         C 
I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town 
          
 

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Chord set

C · G7 · C7 · F · A7 · D7

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.