New York, New York

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

Words by Fred Ebb
Music by John Kander
Performed by Frank Sinatra


  4   -3   4   -3b   3  
Start speadin' the news
 4   -3  4  -3b   3
I'm leaving to - day
-3 4  -4  5  -4     5   -4  5
 I wanna be  a  -- part of it
-4   5       -4  -4
New York    New York
  5    -3   4    -3b   3
These vag - a - bond shoes
 4   -3  4  -3   3 
Are longing to stray
-3   4    -4  5  -4    5   -4  5 
And step, around the heart of it
 6    5      6    5
New York    New York

5  5  6  -6  5   5  -4 -6  6            
I wanna wake up in the cit-y 
 5    5  -4    6
That doesn't sleep
5   5    6   -7  -6  6   -7 
To find I'm king of the hill
-6   6  5   -6
Top of the heap

4   -3  4 -3b    3 
My little town blues
 4   -3  4  -3b  3
Are melting a - way
 -3   4  -4   5    -4   5   -4  5 
I'll make a brand new start of it
6   5   6   -6
In old New York
6  5  5   7   -6   6
If I can make it there
 5   5   -4  7   6     5
I'd make it an - y - where
 5   5  6   -6   6   5     6    4
It's up to you, New York  New York

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