Riding To New York

   Fmaj7                 Am7      
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      G5                    
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   Am7            C              
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  G5
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   Fmaj7                  Am7     
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         G5             Fmaj7
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[Verse]

        Am7              C        
Well, I met him in Minnesota. He 
   G               F
was dark and overcast,
     Am7                 C
with long grey hair and eyes that 
stared
G
through me like I was glass.
F                       Am7
I asked, "Where are you going to?"
   G                            
He said, "I'm the wind, I'm just 
 F
blowin' through".
     Am7                     C    
Then he lit up a cigarette and 
          G*
began to talk:
         Am7                    C
"See the doctors told me that my 
body won't hold me,
   G                      F
my lungs are turning black.
     Am7                        C
Been Lucky Strike's fool since I was
 at school,
           G
now there ain't no turning back.
     F                 Am7     
They can't tell me how long I've 
       G                         F
got, maybe months, but maybe not.
       Am7                  C     
So I'm taking this bike and riding
            G
 to New York.


[Chorus]

         Dm                Am7    
'Cause I wanna see my 
              G
grand-daughter one last time
        Dm                 Am7
Want to hold her close and feel her 
tiny
C                    G
Heartbeat next to mine
      Dm                   Am7
Wanna see my son and the man he's 
become
Continúa después del anuncio
C                           G
Tell him I'm sorry for the things 
I've done
        F                   Am7   G
And I'd do it if I had to walk
        F                    G    
Oh, I'm taking this bike and 
              Am7*
riding to New York
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[Verse]

            Am7            C      
Through the forests of Wisconsin, 
     G             F
that I knew as a boy
           Am7          C         
Past the skyline of Chicago, 
       G
'round the lakes of Illinois
F                  Am7
I lay my head in a motel bed
         G                       F
When my back get sore and my eyes 
turn red
    Am7                C          
And listen to the trucks roll past
    G
 my door
             Am7         C      
Through the fields of Ohio as the 
   G                    Am7
sunshine paints them gold
     Am7             C           
I'll run just like a river runs, 
G
rapid, quick and cold
F                   Am7       
Fly through Pennsylvania and the 
    G               F
Jersey turn-pike tolls
Am7               C             G
I won't stop 'til I get to New York


[Chorus]

         Dm             Am7       
'Cause I wanna see my grand-son 
       G
one last time
      Dm             Am7       
Wanna see his eyes sparkling and 
   C              G
stare back into mine
       Dm                      Am7
Now my time is short, I wanna see my
 daughter
C                              G
Tell her I'm sorry for the things I 
taught her
        F                   Am7   
And I'd do it if I had to walk
  G

        F                       
Oh, I'm taking this bike and I'm 
 G                Am7
riding to New York

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[Otro]

        Dm            Am7         
And I'd go up to the churchyard 
       G
one last time
    Dm                     Am7
Lay flowers down for the woman who 
gave me
    C                  G
The best years of my life
        F                  Am7    G
And I'd do it if I had to walk
          F                  Am7  
Yeah, I'd do it if I had to walk
  G

    F                    G          
       Am7(with pinky on 1st string 
5ft fret)
I'm taking this bike and riding to 
New York



Now, if you've played a couple of 
Mr. Rosenberg's songs before, his 
type of finger-picking
should be known to you, but to make 
it easier for those of you who are 
not familiar with it,
I've made a tab of the 
picking-pattern in the verse. This 
is actually how Mike plays half(if 
not
most) of his songs:

Picking pattern (verse)
   Am7            C              
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B|-----1---------1-----1---------
G|-----------0---------------0---
D|-----2-------2-------2-------2-
A|-0-------0-------3-------3-----
E|-------------------------------
  G              Fmaj7
E|--------------------------------------------| 
B|1-----0---------0-----1---------1-----------| 
G|------------0---------------2---------------| 
D|------0-------0-------3-------3-------------| 
A|--------------------------------------------| 
E|--3-------3-------1-------1-----------------| 

On some of the G's that span two 
tact-strokes (listen to the video to
 figure out which) goes
like this:

   G*
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G|-----------0--------------0-----
D|-----0h2-----2------0-------0---
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E|-3-------3------3-------3-------