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Miami 2017 Tab

by Billy Joel


Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
Turnstiles, 1976
Billy Joel (greatest of all time)

These sound pretty much dead-on.

NO CAPO

Chords Used:  :xx0232  :2x023x      :x02220  :xx0003   
              :x32010 :3x0002   :242222  
              :320003   :x2003x B7sus2:x24222
             :x13331    :x24432  :x02230 


Intro:                 /F#      /         

                                   
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
                          
 I saw the Empire State laid low.
                                
 And life went on beyond the Palisades,
B7sus2          
 They all bought Cadillacs
               
 And left there long ago.

                                 
 They held a concert out in Brooklyn
Bm            G              A--Asus4-A
 To watch the Island bridges blow.
             
 They turned our power down
              
 And drove us underground
                                
 But we went right on with the show

INTERLUDE x2:       

                             
 I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
                        
 I saw the ruins at my feet
                              B7sus2
 You know we almost didn't notice it
B7sus2                                          
We'd see it all the time on Forty-Second Street.

                            
 They burned the churches up in Harlem
                               
 Like in that Spanish Civil War
              
 The flames were everywhere
           
 But no one really cared
                             
 It always burned up there before

INTERLUDE x2:       

                            
 I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
                              
 I watched the mighty skyline fall.
                                B7sus2 
 The boats were waiting at the Battery
B7sus2      
 The union went on strike
                     
They never sailed at all.

                           
 They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
                                  
 And picked the Yankees up for free.
             
 They said that Queens could stay
               
 They blew the Bronx away
                        
 And sank Manhattan out at sea

INTERLUDE x2:       

                                             
 You know those lights were bright on Broadway
                           
 But that was so many years ago
                              B7sus2
 Before we all lived here in Florida
B7sus2                     
 Before the Mafia took over Mexico.
                             
 There are not many who remember
                             
 They say a handful still survive
         
 To tell the world about
            
The way the lights went  out
                       
 And keep the memory alive


CODA (repeat for as long as u like): D  C  G  Bb