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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:11:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Smith
jim croce: new york s not for me
[Intro] *(notes)
things are spinning round me and all my thoughts were cloudy
*(notes)
and i had begun to doubt all the things that were me
being in so many places you know i ve run so many races
i ve looked into the empty faces of the people of the night
something is just not right cause i know that i ve got
to get out of here i m so alone don t you know that i got
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to get out of here cause new york s not my home
though all the streets are crowded there s something strange
about it i ve lived there about a year and i never once felt
*(notes)
at home i thought i made the big time i learned a lot
of lessons off the quick and know i m telling you that they were
not the nice kind it s been so long since i have felt fine
that s the reason that i ve got to get out of here i m so alone
don t you know that i got to get out of here
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cause new york s not my home
[interlude] chords: (2x) *(notes)
that s the reason that i ve got to get out of here i m so alone
don t you know that i got to get out of here
__
cause new york s not my home
[Chords] (2x) *(notes)