I Wouldn't Live In New York City Chords
by Buck Owens
I Wouldn't Live In New York City by Buck Owens is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G7, C7, F, A7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C G7
It ain't nothin' but a concrete jungle with people packed like sardines
C
Where everybody's tryin' to live beyond their means
C7 F
Where all the natives hurry and scurry too and fro
C A7 D7 G7 C
And like a fleas on a puppy dog they got no place to go
G7
I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town
C
Talk about a bummer it's the biggest one around
C7 F
Sodom and Gomorrah was tame to what I found
C A7 D7 G7 C
I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town
G7
Well I ain't seen the sunshine since the day that I arrived
C
Cause brother I've been busy a-tryin' to survive
C7 F
Nobody knows you've been here till you're six feet under ground
C A7 D7 G7 C
Than you become a statistic if they remember to write you down
G7
I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town
C
Talk about a bummer it's the biggest one around
C7 F
Sodom and Gomorrah was tame to what I found
C A7 D7 G7 C
I wouldn't live in New York City if they gave me the whole dang town