Empire State Of Mind Chords by JAY-Z

[Intro]

[Verse]
B                 F#                                   
Yeah Yeah I'm out that Brooklyn now I'm down in Tribeca
           G#7        D#m                     
Right next to De Niro but I'll be hood forever
            Bmaj7                           
I'm the new Sinatra and since I made it here
           B                                       
I can make it anywhere yeah they love me everywhere
              F#                D#m        
I used to cop in Harlem hola my Dominicanos
               D#m                                           
Right there up on Broadway brought me back to that McDonald's
              Bmaj7                                       
Took it to my stashbox five hundred and sixty State Street
                                       B              
Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whippin' pastry
         F#                            
Cruisin' down eightth St offwhite Lexus
           D#m                      
Drivin' so slow but BK is from Texas
           Bmaj7                               
Me I'm out that BedStuy home of that boy Biggie
           B                                         
Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
            F#                            
Say what up to TyTy still sippin' Mai Tais
D#m                                                
Sittin' courtside Knicks and Nets give me high five
           A#                       A#7      
Nigga I be Spike'd out I could trip a referee
        A#7                                      
Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from


[Chorus]
   Bmaj7   
In New York
         F# C# Bmaj7  B F#                      
Concrete ■  ■  jungle ■ where dreams are made of
C#                          
There's nothin' you can't do
C#                    
Now you're in New York
      B                          Bmaj7    
These streets will make you feel brand new
B                          
Big lights will inspire you
                  B       
Let's hear it for New York
                 
New York New York


[Verse]
            F#                            
Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
            D#m                                         
Shit I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
                B                                     
You should know I bleed blue but I ain't a Crip though
          B                                             
But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
           F#                                           
Welcome to the melting pot corners where we sellin' rock
D#m                                    
Afrika Bambataa shit home of the hiphop
       Bmaj7                              
Yellow cab gypsy cab dollar cab holla back
               B                                                 
For foreigners it ain't fair they act like they forgot how to act
      F#                           D#m      
Eight million stories out there in the naked
        D#m                               
City is a pity half of y'all won't make it
         B                              
Me I got a plug Special Ed I Got It Made
                  B                            
If Jeezy's payin' Lebron I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
           F#                   
Three dice Ceelo threecard Monte
      D#m                                
Labor Day Parade rest in peace Bob Marley
                            A#7            
Statue of Liberty long live the World Trade
              A#7                                     
Long live the king yo I'm from the Empire State that's


[Chorus]
       Bmaj7
In New York 
B                                     F#
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
                C#          
There's nothin' you can't do
                  B   
Now you're in New York
      B                                   
These streets will make you feel brand new
    F#          C#         
Big lights will inspire you
C#                        
Let's hear it for New York
    Bmaj7    B   
New York New York


[Verse]
F#                                    
Lights is blinding girls need blinders
D#m                                                  
So they can step out of bounds quick the sidelines is
Bmaj7                                          
Lined with casualties who sip the life casually
B                                                   
Then gradually become worse don't bite the apple Eve
F#                                          
Caught up in the incrowd now you're in style
G#7             D#m                                  
Into the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out
Bmaj7                            
City of sin it's a pity on a whim
B                                              
Good girls gone bad the city's filled with them
F#                                            
Mommy took a bus trip now she got her bust out
D#m       F#       D#m             Bmaj7
Everybody ride her just like a bus route
Bmaj7                                
Hail Mary to the city you're a virgin
B                                                       
And Jesus can't save you life starts when the church end
F#                                             
Came here for school graduated to the high life
D#m                                    A#       
Ball players rap stars addicted to the limelight
A#                                  
Mdma got you feelin' like a champion
    A#7                                        
The city never sleeps better slip you an Ambien


[Chorus]
   Bmaj7 B   
In New   York
Bmaj7           B                       
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
        F#             C#      
There's ■  nothin' you can't do
                  Bmaj7 B
Now you're in New York  ■
                                 F#       
These streets will make you feel brand new
                C#         
Big lights will inspire you
              C#          
Let's hear it for New York
Bmaj7    B       
New York New York
                                B   
One hand in the air for the big city
D#m                                  C#    
Street lights big dreams all lookin' pretty
                                 D#m7   
No place in the world that could compare
                                       D#m7
Put your lighters in the air everybody say 
A#7      
Yeah yeah
A#7      
Yeah yeah
   Bmaj7   
In New York
B                            F#         
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
                    C#      
There's nothin' you can't do
              B       
Now you're in New York
                                 F#       
These streets will make you feel brand new
                C#         
Big lights will inspire you
                  Bmaj7   
Let's hear it for New York
B                 F#7
New York New York ■  


[End]