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Autumn In New York
Words & Music by Vernon Duke, 1934Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1958**
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Au - tumn in New York -- why does it seem so in - vi - ting?
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Au - tumn in New York -- it spells the thrill of first-nighting.
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Glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel;
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They're making me feel I'm home.
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It's au - tumn in New York
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That brings the prom - ise of new love;
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Au - tumn in New York is often mingled with pain.
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Dreamers with emp - ty hands, may sigh for exotic lands.
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It's au - tumn in New York -- it's good to live it again.
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Au - tumn in New York, the gleaming roof - tops at sundown;
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Au - tumn in New York, it lifts you up when you're run down.
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Jaded roués and gay di - vor - cees who lunch at the Ritz
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Will tell you that it's divine.
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This Au - tumn in New York transforms the slums into Mayfair;
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Au - tumn in New York -- you'll need no castles in Spain.
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Lovers that bless the dark on benches in Central Park
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Greet au - tumn in New York -- it's good to live it again.
*Requested by...well, by more visitors than I can count. This one has been requested far more frequently than any song I've ever attempted -- and has been the source of nearly endless frustration as I tried, and failed, time and time again to evolve a chart that I felt worthy of posting. For that matter, I'm not going to claim that this one is "worthy" either, but at least it's as close as I think I can get.
**While credited here to Sinatra's version, that selection is even more arbitrary than my usual lax standards will allow. I've listened to so many versions in recent years, in an attempt to get a feel for a chord progression I could handle, that it is virtually impossible to say "it was mainly this one."