Empire State Of Mind chords by Ed Sheeran (Ver. 2)

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Ed Sheeran plays this in half-step down tuning (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb eb)
but this tab is for standard tuning (E A D G B e).



Verse 1:
         B
Yeah, I'm out of Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca

Right next to DeNiro but I’ll be hood forever
       E
I’m the new Sinatra and since I made it here

I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
         B
I used to cop in Harlem, hola my Dominicanos

Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonalds
       E
Took it to my stash spot, 560 State street
        F#
Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping pastry
       B
Cruising down 8th street

Off-white Lexus driving so slow but BK is from Texas
        E
Me I’m out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie

Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me


Pre-Chorus:
F#       G#m
Say what up to TyTy, still sipping mai tais
       F#
Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives
      D#
Homie I be Spiked out, I can trip a referee

Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from


Chorus:
  E
  New York
  F#                G#m
  Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
            B
  There's nothing you can’t do
         E
  Now you’re in New York
F#                 G#m
  These streets will make you feel brand new
           B
  Big lights will inspire you
         E
  Now you're in New York, New York, New York


Verse 2:
F#       B
Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game

Yeah, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
         E
You should know I bleed Blue, but I'm not a Crip, though

But I got a gang of people walking with my clique though
F#       B
Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we selling rocks

Afrika Bambaataa stuff, home of the hip-hop
      E
Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back

For foreigners it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to add
 F#       B
8 million stories out there in the naked

City, it's a pity half of y’all won’t make it
      E
Me I gotta plug Special Ed "I Got It Made"

If Jeezy's paying LeBron, I’m paying Dwyane Wade


Pre-Chorus:
F#   G#m
3 dice Cee-lo, 3 card Marley
      F#
Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
     D#
Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade

Long live the king yo, I’m from the Empire of


Chorus:
  E
  New York
  F#                G#m
  Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
            B
  There's nothing you can’t do
         E
  Now you’re in New York
F#                 G#m
  These streets will make you feel brand new
           B
  Big lights will inspire you
         E
  Now you're in New York, New York, New York


Bridge 1:
E
Lights is blinding, the girls need blinders
  F#
So they can step out of bounds quick
         G#m
The side lines is lined with casualties
                B
Who sip the life casually, then gradually become worse

Don’t bite the apple, Eve
E
Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in-style
      F#
And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out
  G#m
The city of sin is a pity on a whim
   B
Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with 'em
E
Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out
F#
Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
G#m
"Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin
  B
And Jesus can’t save you, life starts when the church ends
E
Brought up in school, graduated to the high life
F#
Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
D#
got you feeling like a champion

The city never sleeps, better slip you a Ambien


Chorus:
   E
  In New York
  F#                G#m
  Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
            B
  There's nothing you can’t do
         E
  Now you’re in New York
F#                 G#m
  These streets will make you feel brand new
           B
  Big lights will inspire you
         E
  Now you're in New York, New York, New York


Bridge 2:
E
  One hand in the air for the big city

  Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty
F#
  No place in the world that can compare
G#m                       D#
  Put your lighters in the air, everybody say "yeah!"


Chorus:
  E
  New York
  F#                G#m
  Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
            B
  There's nothing you can’t do
         E
  Now you’re in New York
F#                 G#m
  These streets will make you feel brand new
           B
  Big lights will inspire you
         E          F#
  Now you're in New York, New York, New York


Outro:
  G#m
  New York
  F#                E
  Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh

  There's nothing you can’t do
         G#m
  Now you’re in New York
F#                 E
  These streets will make you feel brand new

  Big lights will inspire you
         E    F#
  Now you're in New York
         G#m   B
  Now you're in New York
         E    F#
  Now you're in New York