Riding To New York tab by Passenger

Tuning: Standard
Capo on the 5th fret

Intro:

  Fmaj7         Am7     G5          Fmaj7
e|-------------0-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------1-----------1--------1-1h3-----3---1--------1p0---------------------|
G|-0h2-------2------------0-----------0--------0h2-------2p0-0---------------|
D|-----3-------3-----2------2-------0--------------3-------------------------|
A|----------------0-----0----------------------------------------------------|
E|-1-------1--------------------3-------3------1-----------------------------|

  Am7      C       G5
e|---------0h3-----3p0-------------------------0-----------------------------|
B|---------------------------1-----1h3---3-------3-------3-1p0---------------|
G|-------0-------0-------0-----0-------------0-------0---------2p0-----------|
D|-----2-------2-------2---2-----2-----0-------0-------0---------------------|
A|-0-------0-------3---------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------3-------3-------3-------------------------|

  Fmaj7         Am7      G5       Fmaj7
e|---------3p0---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------1-------1---------------1-1h3-----3---1---------1-------1-------1---|
G|-0h2-----------------------0-----------0---------0h2-------2-------2-------|
D|-----3-------3-------2-------2-------0---------------3-------3-------3-----|
A|-----------------0-------0-------------------------------------------------|
E|-1-------1-----------------------3-------3-------1-------1-------1---------|


    Am7       C      G        F
Well, I met him in Minnesota. He was dark and overcast,
   Am7         C
with long grey hair and eyes that stared
G
through me like I was glass.
F            Am7
I asked, "Where are you going to?"
  G               F
He said, "I'm the wind, I'm just blowin' through".
   Am7           C       G*
Then he lit up a cigarette and began to talk:
     Am7          C
"See the doctors told me that my body won't hold me,
  G           F
my lungs are turning black.
   Am7            C
Been Lucky Strike's fool since I was at school,
      G
now there ain't no turning back.
   F         Am7      G             F
They can't tell me how long I've got, maybe months, but maybe not.
    Am7         C         G
So I'm taking this bike and riding to New York.

     Dm        Am7         G
'Cause I wanna see my grand-daughter one last time
    Dm         Am7
Want to hold her close and feel her tiny
C          G
Heartbeat next to mine
   Dm          Am7
Wanna see my son and the man he's become
C              G
Tell him I'm sorry for the things I've done
    F          Am7  G
And I'd do it if I had to walk
    F          G         Am7
Oh, I'm taking this bike and riding to New York


(intersection) Intro-ish


      Am7      C      G       F
Through the forests of Wisconsin, that I knew as a boy
      Am7     C        G
Past the skyline of Chicago, 'round the lakes of Illinois
F         Am7
I lay my head in a motel bed
     G            F
When my back get sore and my eyes turn red
  Am7        C       G
And listen to the trucks roll past my door
       Am7     C     G          Am7
Through the fields of Ohio as the sunshine paints them gold
 Am7       C      G
I run just like a river runs, rapid, quick and cold
F          Am7      G        F
Fly through Pennsylvania and the Jersey turn-pike tolls
Am7        C       G
I won't stop 'til I get to New York

     Dm       Am7       G
'Cause I wanna see my grand-son one last time
   Dm       Am7     C       G
Wanna see his eyes sparkling and stare back into mine
    Dm           Am7
Now my time is short, I wanna see my daughter
C               G
Tell her all the things that I should have taught her
    F          Am7   G
And I'd do it if I had to walk
    F            G        Am7
Oh, I'm taking this bike and I'm riding to New York


(intersection) Intro-ish


    Dm      Am7         G
And I'd go up to the church yard one last time
  Dm           Am7
Lay flowers down for the woman who gave me
  C         G
The best years of my life
    F         Am7  G
And I'd do it if I had to walk
     F         Am7  G
Yeah, I'd do it if I had to walk
  F          G         Am7(with pinky on 1st string 5ft fret)
I'm taking this bike and riding to New York


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Now, if you've played a couple of Mr. Rosenberg's songs before, his type of finger-picking
should be known to you, but to make it easier for those of you who are not familiar with it,
I've made a tab of the picking-pattern in the verse. This is actually how Mike plays half(if not
most) of his songs:

Picking pattern (verse)
  Am7      C       G       Fmaj7
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----1---------1-----1---------1-----0---------0-----1---------1-----------|
G|-----------0---------------0---------------0---------------2---------------|
D|-----2-------2-------2-------2-------0-------0-------3-------3-------------|
A|-0-------0-------3-------3-------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------3-------3-------1-------1-----------------|

On some of the G's that span two tact-strokes (listen to the video to figure out which) goes
like this:
  G*
e|---------------------------------|
B|-----0h1------1p0---0---------0--|
G|-----------0--------------0------|
D|-----0h2-----2------0-------0----|
A|---------------------------------|
E|-3-------3------3-------3--------|