E = 022010
A = x02220
B7 = x21202
F#m = 244222
[Intro]
| E | A B7 | E | A B7 |
[Verse 1] (female)
E A
Oh the city snow makes your brown eyes shine
E A
We've gotta look real hard to find a reason to cry
E B7 E B7
New York, New York is a friend to the traveling kind
E A
And I'm coming around from years of hard times
E A
He's chased me down through the towns and the miles
E B7 E
Once stilled by love he was bound to roll on by
[Chorus] (both)
A E
And if you feel my love won't leave you
F#m B7 N.C.
And if your sorrow - has been your share
E A E
If you are traveling - back to Georgia
F#m B7 E
Won't you take - me with you there
| E | A B7 | E | A B7 |
[Verse 2] (male)
E A
Well I'm long gone darling, lonesome blue
E A
I been thinking of leaving, I been thinking of you
E B7 E B7
But that big city singing, man I like the way that it shines
(Both)
E A
I was half a mile from Canada waiting on a train
E A
Wondering and wishing I could disappear again
E B7 E
I been killed by love still it takes me to the end of the line
[Chorus] (both)
A E
And if you feel my love won't leave you
F#m B7 N.C.
And if your sorrow - has been your share
E A E
If you are traveling - back to Georgia
F#m B7 E
Won't you take - me with you there
[Solo]
| A | A | E | E | F#m | B7 |
| E | A B7 | E | A B7 |
[Verse 3] (female)
E A
Well I've been troubled by a love untrue
E A
It's a fool who will drown in his fountain of youth
E B7 E B7
I can see that now as I'm walking and talking with you
(both)
E A
Well I been blinded by the sun, washed in the rain
E A
Scattered in America, and I'm scatterin' again
E B7 E
But if you're going south darling, I guess I'm traveling with you
[Chorus] (both)
A E
And if you feel my love won't leave you
F#m B7 N.C.
And if your sorrow - has been your share
E A E
If you are traveling - back to Georgia
F#m B7 E
Won't you take - me with you there
A E
And if you feel my love won't leave you
F#m B7 N.C.
And if your sorrow - has been your share
E A E
If you are traveling - back to Georgia
F#m B7 E
Won't you take - me with you there
