Tabs

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Tabbed by: Mike Nachaj :: mike@mikemusicbox.com

Song: The Only Living Boy In New York
By:   Everything But the Girl

{capo fret 4}
{4/4}

[intro:]   |G   |C    |G    |C     |   
 
[verse: 1]
|G                            |C         |
 Tom, get your plane right on time
|G                        |C           |
 I know your part will go fine
|G               |C  C/B  Am  Am/G  |
  Fly down to Mexico_____________
|D/F#                           |C      |
 Do-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-da-da and here I am
   |G     {two beats}       |C      |G      |
The only living boy in New_ York
 
[verse: 2]
|G                                    |C         |
|I get the news I need on the weather report
      |G                                        |C       |
I can gather all the news I need on the weather report
|G                        |C  C/B  Am  Am/G     |
 Hey, I've got nothing to do to - day but smile
|D/F#                       |C           |
  Do-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da-n here I am
    |G     {two beats}      |C     |E    |
The only living boy in New_ York

[chorus:]
|Am                     D7/F#                   |
 Half of the time we're gone, but we don't know
|G                          C            |
 Where, and we don't know   where
  
[:]     (Ahh...ahh.... over part of verse chords)
     |G        |C      |
     |G        |C      |
     |G        |C  C/B  Am  Am/G
     |D/F#     |C         |G   {two beats}     |C      |E     |  
                Here___ I am
 
[chorus:]
|Am                     D7/F#                   |
 Half of the time we're gone, but we don't know
|G                          C            |
 Where, and we don't know   where
 
[Verse: 3]
|G                            |C        |
 Tom, get your plane right on time
|G                                |C           |
 I know that you've been eager to fly   now
|G                     |C     C/B    Am    Am/G  |
 Hey, let your honesty shine, shine, shine now
|D/F#                            |Cmaj7         |
 Do-n-da-da-n-da-da-n-do like it shines_ on me
    |G  {two beats}         |C       |
The only living boy in New_ York
    |G  {two beats}         |C       |
The only living boy in New_ York

[:]
     |G        |C     |
     |G        |C  C/B  Am  Am/G   |
|D/F#                      |C          |
 Do-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da-n here I am
|D/F#                      |C          |
 Do-n-da-da-n-da-n-da-da-n here I am

[:]     (Ahh...ahh.... over part of verse chords)
     |G        |C     |
     |G        |C     |
     |G        |C  C/B  Am  Am/G  |
     |D/F#     |C         |G   {two beats}     |C      |  
                Here___  I am

[coda:]  (Ahh...ahh.... over part of verse chords)
     |G        |C     |
     |G        |C     |
     |G        |C  C/B  Am  Am/G
     |D/F#     |C         |G   {two beats}     |C      |  
                Here___  I am
     |G  {finish}



chords:

C       x32010 
C/B     x22010
Am      x02210
Am/G    3x2210
D/F#    2x0232
D7/F#   2x0212
Cmaj7   332000
G       320003