Mood : Emo Mood + Happy Mood (Proud + Patriotic)
Key : F# Major
This was one of the songs in the FLAC Lossless CD that my friend Kuan Ming gave me on my birthday. Original CDs or Lossless files are totally awesome. They can bring up your audio experience to a whole new level if you have been listening to compressed audios from YouTube Videos, AAC, Mp3, WMA, etc. You hear the song as in how it was originally played and how it was originally meant to be heard. New York City was a City that I used to live in for a year. I love and hate that place =)
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The intro before the lyric comes in is actually quite short. Just play chords B, C#(Fifth Apart), F# (Main Key)
Ooohh New York x2
(Right Hand quickly jump from the lower part to the upper notes playing Octave C# on F# Major Chord and play the Melody. Left Hand on Chord F# and Chord B) - Follow the Beat
Grew up in a town that is famous as the place of movie scenes
Noise is always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are mean
If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that's what they say
Seeing my face in lights or my name in marquees found down on Broadway
(Left Hand alternates on chords F# and B according to the Beat. Right Hand plays the Melody)
Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams
(Short Bridge on Bb Left Hand, Right Hand on F, Bb, F)
Baby, I'm from New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's nothing you can't do
Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!
(Very Grand Right Hand playing on Rich Chords Melody, Left Hand according to the Beat on chords B, F#, C#)
On the avenue, there ain't never a curfew, ladies work so hard
Such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God
Hail a gypsy cab, takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge
Some will sleep tonight with a hunger for more than an empty fridge
(Left Hand alternates on chords F# and B according to the Beat. Right Hand plays the Melody)
I'm gonna make it by any means, I got a pocketful of dreams
(Short Bridge on Bb Left Hand, Right Hand on F, Bb, F)
Baby, I'm from New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's nothing you can't do
Now you're in New York
These street will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!
(Very Grand Right Hand playing on Rich Chords Melody, Left Hand according to the Beat on chords B, F#, C#)
One hand in the air for the big city,
Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty
No place in the world that can compare
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Actual Bridge, moving up from B, C#, D# then to Bb (Bridge))
In New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's nothing you can't do
Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!
(Very Grand Right Hand playing on Rich Chords Melody, Left Hand according to the Beat on chords B, F#, C#)