Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) 🎸 Verse 1: G7 I left Garden City Kansas with a ticket and a yen to see New York C7 I typed eighty words a minute so your corporation let me go to work D7 I fetch paper clips and coffee even help you dodge your domineering wife G7 Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life 🎸 Verse 2:
G7 In this building there's a crowd of guys with old familiar thoughts upon their minds C7 That's a lot of hands a reaching out to grab the things that I consider mine D7 And the president pursues me even though he's old and hair a turnin' white G7 Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life 🎸 Verse 3: G7 There's a flat in Greenwich Village that I took because the subway wasn't far C7 But a trumpet player's upstairs and below me there's a jumping all night bar D7 And to frost a bitter cake I have to share the place with bugs and big ol' mice G7 Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life 🎸 Verse 4: G7 Your sweetheart in personnel said I should give her written notice like the rest C7 So I wrote goodbye with my brightest lipstick right across her big expensive desk D7 You'd better call the Times and tell 'em - put your wanted ad right back in classified G7 Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life 🎸 Verse 5: G7 There's a Greyhound at the station and a mom at home with open arms for me C7 Garden City's looking better every minute now since I have learned to see D7 And the boy next door don't know it but come June he's gonna gain himself a wife G7 Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life D7 G7 Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life D7 G7 Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life ____________________________ * ALTERNATIVE CHORDS: In the recording, there's a key change up a half step at VERSE 4 and 5. Example: G#7 Your sweetheart in personnel said I should give her written notice like the rest C#7 So I wrote goodbye with my brightest lipstick right across her big expensive desk D#7 You'd better call the Times and tell 'em - put your wanted ad right back in classified G#7 Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life
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