The Sound Of North America Chords

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DGinger Elvis PF♯m7resley looked a fraGction sadD

DRoaming the whole Atown from bin to binG

DWell living on the F♯m7streets wasn't Gall that badD

DWhere no-one seemed to Aknow that he was GKing D

 The Bmsound of New York City

 isn't pF♯m7olice sirens wailing

 It's the Dsound of Wall Street F♯m7tills

 whilst Geveryone else is faDiling

 Sometimes you F♯m7feel expensive

Sometimes you feels so cheap

GYou can roam the streets a DKing

GWhilst everyone's Dasleep

 You can mime to aF♯m7ny record

 With a Ghairbrush or a Dspoon

 But G7MGod help the singer out of tunAe

A crippled Mohammad Ali

looked at bad luck in the mirror

Bad luck looked back at him and sighed

He looked a good foot smaller

and a couple of stone thinner

And if anyone came toward him

he would hide

The sound of North America

isn't Christians quietly praying

It's the sound of shuffling feet

that don't know where they're staying

Sometimes you feel expensive

sometimes you feels so cheap

You can roam the streets a King

whilst everyone's asleep

You can fight with anybody

with a glimmer of a chance

But God help the boxer with no hands

A homeless Greta Garbo

moves across the street

The moonlight shining clearly

through her skirt

A real life living legend

that no-one wants to meet

And that's when being Garbo

really hurts

The lyrics of "New York"

may have Frank Sinatra singing

But the rhythm and the melody

were dead black men swinging

Sometimes you feel expensive

sometimes you feels so cheap

You can roam the streets a Queen

whilst everyone's asleep

You can act with anybody

from the cradle to the crypt

But God help the actress

who doesn't know the script