Living In The City by Hurray For The Riff Raff, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Living In The City

Biography:

Hurray for the Riff Raff is an Americana band from New Orleans, Louisiana. It was formed by Alynda Segarra, a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter from the Bronx, New York, after she had moved to New Orleans in 2007.

After leaving home at an early age to travel the country, Segarra eventually settled in New Orleans where she began to perform and record with a revolving cast of musicians. She released two records (2008's It Don't Mean I Don't Love You and 2010's Young Blood Blues) mostly consisting of delicate folk and country songs.

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Artist: Hurray for the Riff Raff
Song: Living in the City
Album: The Navigator

Capo on 1st fret.

* Chord names above lyrics have been simplified for better readability. Remove parentheses to get full names.
* Use hammer-on's while strumming to transition between the special chords listed below,
check the live version to see how Alynda does it.

[Chords]
D7sus2(/c) x30210
Dsus4(add13/G) 300003
Csus2 x30010

[Intro]
G C D7sus2/C Csus2 (x3)
D C G

[Verse 1]
G C
Well I've got her cane
G C D7sus2 Csus2
Oh and Big Danny is wasted
G C
He said I'm the sweetest thing
G C D7sus2 Csus2
You know that he's never tasted
G C
Mariposa's singing love songs
G C
All in her dark apartment
G C
Fourteen floors a'birthin
G C
And fourteen floors a'dying

[Chorus]
G C
Livin' in the city
G C D7sus2 Csus2
We're just livin' in the city
G C
Oh, livin' in the city
D C G
Well it's hard, it's hard, it's hard

[Verse 2]
G C
I'll take you to the stairwell
G C D7sus2 Csus2
And give you something I can offer
G C
You know the heart is not the hopeless
G C
The heart is a lonely hunter
G C
Hot long summer days...
G C D7sus2 Csus2
We're just sneakin' by the river
G C
Well, I'll lock my dreams away
G C
And I'll watch the city quiver

[Chorus]
G C
Livin' in the city
G C D7sus2 Csus2
We're just livin' in the city
G C
Oh, livin' in the city
D C Dsus4
Well it's hard, it's hard, it's hard

[Bridge]
G C D7sus2 Csus2
G C D7sus2 Csus2 D7sus2
G Csus2 C
D C G

[Verse 3]
G C
Gypsy bit the dust
G C
You know the shitty hat - it was poisoned
G C
Now everybody wants
G C
Just a taste of what we sold him
G C
Standing on the rooftops
G C
We're just yellin' till the morning
G C
All surrounded by the visions
G C
Of all who came before them

[Chorus]
G C
Livin' in the city
G C D7sus2 Csus2
We're just livin' in the city
G C
Oh, livin' in the city
D C G
Well it's hard, it's hard, it's hard
G C
Livin' in the city
G C D7sus2 Csus2
We're just livin' in the city
G C
Oh, livin' in the city
D C G
Well it's hard, it's hard, it's hard
D C G
Oh, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard

[Outro]
D C G