EMPIRE STATE OF MIND Words and Music by JANET SEWELL, ANGELA HUNTE, SHAWN CARTER SYLVIA ROBINSON, BURT KEYES, ALICIA KEYS and ALEXANDER SHUCKBURGH = 88
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Ooh,
New
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York
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Ooh,
New
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York
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Grew up in
a
town that is
fa - mous as
the place of
mov - ie
scenes
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Noise is al - ways loud There are
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mean
si-rens all
a-round and the streets are
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If I can make it
here,
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make it an -
y- where, that’s what they
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I can
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say
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See-ing my face at
nights or my name on mar - quees found donw on Broad - way
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3 C
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E - ven if
it ain’t all
it
seems,
I
got
a
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pock - et - ful
of
dreams Baby,
I’m from New York
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Con-crete un - gle where dreams are made
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of
There’s noth-ing you can’t
Ah
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York Ah
do
Now you’re in
New
Ah
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These streets will make you feel brand
new
Big lights will in - spire
Ah
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4 C
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you
Hear it
for
New
Ah
York
New
York
New
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On the av
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e - nue, there ain’t nev - er a
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cur- few La - dies work so
hard
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Such a melt - ing pot, on the
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God
York
Ah
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cor - ner sell- ing rock Preach-ers pray to
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Hail a Gyp - sy Cab Takes me
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down from Har - lem to the Brook-lyn
C
Bridge
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Some-one sleeps to - night with a
hun - ger for
C
more than an emp - ty
fridge
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I’m gonna make it by an
-
y
means
I got a
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pock - et - ful
of
dreams Baby,
I’m from New York
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Con-crete un - gle where dreams are made
C
of
There’s noth-ing you can’t
Ah
do
Now you’re in
New
Ah
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F
York
These streets will make you feel brand
Ah
new
Big lights will in - spire
Ah
C
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you
Hear it
for
Ah
New
York
New
York
New
York
Ah
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One hand in the air of the big cit- y
Street-lights, big dreams all look-ing pret-ty
No place in the world that can com- pare
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Put your light-ers in the air, ev-’ry bod-y say
Yeah,
yeah,
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yeah,
yeah,
New
F
York
Con-crete un - gle where dreams are made
of
There’s noth-ing you can’t
Ah
C
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do
Now you’re in
New
Ah
F
C
new Big lights will in - spire Ah
York
These streets will make you feel brand
Ah
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you Ah
Hear it for New
F
York Ah
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