The City Never Sleeps At Night Chords

KeyA Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays685

The City Never Sleeps At Night by Nancy Sinatra is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of A with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords A, D, E and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
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16
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  			Capo II 

A                   D  
Old man, young man, preacher saying amen 
A                      E 
Taking up collections, playing on the bass drum 
A            G          E         A      D D D E 
How come the city never sleeps at night? 

A                    D  
Red cars, blue cars, payment overdue cars 
A                      E 
Cops with indigestion, millionaires and sun bums 
A            G          E         A      D D D E 
How come the city never sleeps at night? 

A                        D  
Short girls, tall girls, happy that they’re all girls 
A                            E 
Walking with tonight’s love, holding hands and then sung 
A            G          E         A      D D D E  
How come the city never sleeps at night? 

A                    D  
Good guys, bad guys, win and place show guys 
A                            E 
Losers with their hands out, pigeons begging bread crumbs   
A            G          E         A      D D D E  
How come the city never sleeps at night? 

A                          D  
Long nights, short nights, bungalows and good-nights 
A                         E 
Dreams and conversations, not a single holmium 
A            G          E         A      D D D E  
How come the city never sleeps at night? 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante