No Pity In The Naked City ukulele

No Pity In The Naked City

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No Pity (In the Naked City):Jackie Wilson.
#25 on R&B and #59 on Hot 100 on KENT Records
in 1965.

INTRO: G C G C

#1.
C                   G       C            G     C
Mmm-hmm, there's no pity....in the naked city, yeah.
            G    C                    G
When you're all alone....and all your hard-earned 
        C
money's gone.

CHORUS:
C                   G                 C
There just ain't no pity (there is no pity)..
C                        G
no, no, no, in the naked city..yeah, yeah, yeah.. 
          C                    G        C   G C
(New York City.) unnh, help me now, mmm-hmm..

#2.
C                   G           C
You go walkin' down Broadway....watchin' people catch the 
G      C
subway.
C                        G                      C                
Take it from me....don't ask for a helpin' hand....
C                             G      C 
mmmmm, cause no one will understand.

CHORUS:
C                  G                        C
Aaahhh, there's no pity, yeah..(there is no pity)..
C                        G
No, no, no, in the naked city, yeah, yeah..
          C                 G        C   G C
(New York City) oh, help me now, mmm-hmm.

BRIDGE:
 Bb         Ab
(There's no pity) Folks that don't know think it's 
     Bb              Ab
very nice..(New York City.)
Ab                                              Bb
It's the only place I know where hearts turn to ice.
            Ab
(There's no pity.)
Ab                                              Bb
You can have a room and your neighbor next door will 
                                             Ab
swear to someone, like the iceman, you don't live 
                         Bb
there no more..(New York City.)


(INTERLUDE:)  Bm7 Bb Am7 D 

#3.
      G                  C                         G
Mmmm, bright lights will find you....and they will mess you
       C
around.
C                 G                          C
Let me tell ya....millions will watch you....have mercy now..
                  G                  C
as you sink right down to the ground.

OUTRO:
C                    G                 C
Aaaahhh...there's no pity (there is no pity)..
C                        G
no, no, no, in the naked city..yeah, yeah, yeah.. 
          C               G        
(New York City.) come on, help me now..
             C                           G
(there is no pity) aaahhhhhh..there's no pity..
 C           G    C
(in New York City)..(Fade.)


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

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