Riding To New York tab by Passenger

Tabs

Tuning: Standard
Capo on the 5th fret

Intro:

  Fmaj7Fmaj7         Am7Am7     G5G5          Fmaj7Fmaj7
e|-------------0-------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-------1-----------1--------1-1h3-----3---1--------1p0---------------------|
G+G|-0h2-------2------------0-----------0--------0h2-------2p0-0---------------|
D MajorD|-----3-------3-----2------2-------0--------------3-------------------------|
A augmentedA|----------------0-----0----------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-1-------1--------------------3-------3------1-----------------------------|

  Am7Am7      C majorC       G5G5
e|---------0h3-----3p0-------------------------0-----------------------------|
BB|---------------------------1-----1h3---3-------3-------3-1p0---------------|
G+G|-------0-------0-------0-----0-------------0-------0---------2p0-----------|
D MajorD|-----2-------2-------2---2-----2-----0-------0-------0---------------------|
A augmentedA|-0-------0-------3---------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------3-------3-------3-------------------------|

  Fmaj7Fmaj7         Am7Am7      G5G5       Fmaj7Fmaj7
e|---------3p0---------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-------1-------1---------------1-1h3-----3---1---------1-------1-------1---|
G+G|-0h2-----------------------0-----------0---------0h2-------2-------2-------|
D MajorD|-----3-------3-------2-------2-------0---------------3-------3-------3-----|
A augmentedA|-----------------0-------0-------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-1-------1-----------------------3-------3-------1-------1-------1---------|

    Am7Am7       C majorC      G+G        FF
Well, I met him in Minnesota. He was dark and overcast,
   Am7Am7         C majorC
with long grey hair and eyes that stared
G+G
through me like I was glass.
FF            Am7Am7
I asked, "Where are you going to?"
  G+G               FF
He said, "I'm the wind, I'm just blowin' through".
   Am7Am7           C majorC       G*
Then he lit up a cigarette and began to talk:
     Am7Am7          C majorC
"See the doctors told me that my body won't hold me,
  G+G           FF
my lungs are turning black.
   Am7Am7            C majorC
Been Lucky Strike's fool since I was at school,
      G+G
now there ain't no turning back.
   FF         Am7Am7      G+G             FF
They can't tell me how long I've got, maybe months, but maybe not.
    Am7Am7         C majorC         G+G
So I'm taking this bike and riding to New York.

     DmDm        Am7Am7         G+G
'Cause I wanna see my grand-daughter one last time
    DmDm         Am7Am7
Want to hold her close and feel her tiny
C majorC          G+G
Heartbeat next to mine
   DmDm          Am7Am7
Wanna see my son and the man he's become
C majorC              G+G
Tell him I'm sorry for the things I've done
    FF          Am7Am7  G+G
And I'd do it if I had to walk
    FF          G+G         Am7Am7
Oh, I'm taking this bike and riding to New York

(intersection) Intro-ish


      Am7Am7      C majorC      G+G       FF
Through the forests of Wisconsin, that I knew as a boy
      Am7Am7     C majorC        G+G
Past the skyline of Chicago, 'round the lakes of Illinois
FF         Am7Am7
I lay my head in a motel bed
     G+G            FF
When my back get sore and my eyes turn red
  Am7Am7        C majorC       G+G
And listen to the trucks roll past my door
       Am7Am7     C majorC     G+G          Am7Am7
Through the fields of Ohio as the sunshine paints them gold
 Am7Am7       C majorC      G+G
I run just like a river runs, rapid, quick and cold
FF          Am7Am7      G+G        FF
Fly through Pennsylvania and the Jersey turn-pike tolls
Am7Am7        C majorC       G+G
I won't stop 'til I get to New York

     DmDm       Am7Am7       G+G
'Cause I wanna see my grand-son one last time
   DmDm       Am7Am7     C majorC       G+G
Wanna see his eyes sparkling and stare back into mine
    DmDm           Am7Am7
Now my time is short, I wanna see my daughter
C majorC               G+G
Tell her all the things that I should have taught her
    FF          Am7Am7   G+G
And I'd do it if I had to walk
    FF            G+G        Am7Am7
Oh, I'm taking this bike and I'm riding to New York


(intersection) Intro-ish


    DmDm      Am7Am7         G+G
And I'd go up to the church yard one last time
  DmDm           Am7Am7
Lay flowers down for the woman who gave me
  C majorC         G+G
The best years of my life
    FF         Am7Am7  G+G
And I'd do it if I had to walk
     FF         Am7Am7  G+G
Yeah, I'd do it if I had to walk
  FF          G+G         Am7(with pinky on 1st string 5ft fret)
I'm taking this bike and riding to New York


-end-
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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)
  Am7Am7      C majorC       G+G       Fmaj7Fmaj7
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-----1---------1-----1---------1-----0---------0-----1---------1-----------|
G+G|-----------0---------------0---------------0---------------2---------------|
D MajorD|-----2-------2-------2-------2-------0-------0-------3-------3-------------|
A augmentedA|-0-------0-------3-------3-------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------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|---------------------------------|
BB|-----0h1------1p0---0---------0--|
G+G|-----------0--------------0------|
D MajorD|-----0h2-----2------0-------0----|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------|
E MajorE|-3-------3------3-------3--------|