Misc Musicals – The Great Gatsby - New Money (Guitar)

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[Intro] Bm
          Bm
When your money makes you money
What's the well-to-do to do
    A                         A7
But buy another pony with the interest they accrue

      G                                    Fdim
While right across the bay, they're making fortunes on the go

     F#7
Over there, the rich are riche

                 Bm       G E7 G7 F#7
And the money is nouveau
[Verse 1]
        Bm                G
Oh, the nouveau riche are reaching

        E7
For the sector of the kings

    Bm               G                  E7
And somewhere high above us, you've got Gatsby pulling strings
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Bm7                   Gm
Faster and faster, no slowing him down

Bm                             Gm
Lucky boy, you got the hottest ticket in town

  Bm        D7     Gm    F#7                               G7 F#7
A whole new ruling party and your neighbor wears the crown
[Chorus]
Bm         E7
New money, young, rich, and wild

A7
Revelled, reviled

D                   Bm
You can't stop that new money

E7
Filling your pocket

A7
Spend it while you got it

       D              Bm
Heaven knows if it'll last

                 D                  Bm        E7
Watch it as it goes, watch it as it go-o-oes

A7
Bada-bada-da
[Verse 2]
       Bm                  Gm
In the West Egg there's no nest egg

   E7
No need to sit and brood

   Bm                  Gm
On piles of cash, they spend their stash

   E7
At shocking magnitude
[Pre-chorus 2]
    Bm7                      Gm
The kind of wealth you gotta see to believe

    Bm
The level of luxury that's hard to achieve

Bm7                            Fdim
I don't wanna live here, but I never wanna leave

G7
Woah-oh, woah-oh, oh
[Chorus]
Bm         E7
New money, young, rich, and wild

A7
Revelled, reviled

D                   Bm
Don't you want that new money

E7
Filling your pocket

A7
Spend it while you got it

       D              Bm
Heaven knows if it'll last

            D                       Bm
Everything top shelf can only top itself

A7        D
Bada-bada bayada

    G7
New money!
[Bridge 1] F7 New money / when it's scanty
            Bbm
New money / up the anty

F7
Ooh, ooh, butter me honey

  Bbm
Tonight I'm on a roll

Dbm
New money / lucky sevens

          Ab7
New manna from the heavens

Dbm
Ooh, ooh, butter me honey

  Ab7                  A
Tonight I'm on a roll
[Verse 3]
    Dm
So where do we find Gatsby

        Gm
Can you point him out to me

     Dm
I've never even met him

    Gm
The man's a mystery

Dm
Every night it seems his notoriety grows

Dm7
I wonder if he's even at the parties he throws

Dm7               Bbm           Gm
I think that it's dandy that he keeps a brandy handy
But his modus operandi
C7
No-one really knows
[Bridge 2]
     Bdim                           Bbdim
Well I heard Gatsby owns the patent for the Model T

               Adim
I heard he's a spy

                               Bb
I heard he won this place in a horse race
I heard he killed a man
Bdim
He's selling bathtub gin

     Bbdim
He's Prussian royalty

Adim           C#
Stock market / he's flooded

F            F#
Red carpet / star studded

A#7            F#
Black market / cold-blooded

                    G7
Do you wanna dance?

B       D#m            G#m   B
My baby only wants new money

EM7           D#7        G#m7  F#7
The kind that washes out green

B       D#m                  G#m   B
My baby has the taste of new money

EM7           D#7          G#m
She likes her legal tender tender and mean
B D#7 G#m B7 Em7 D#7 G#m7 F#
D7
Oh-oh, oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh, oh!
Gm
New money!
[Instrumental] C7 F7 Bb Gm C7 F7 D7 Bbm Eb7 Ab7 Db Bbm Eb7 Ab7 F7 Gb7 Eb Ab7 [Chorus]
C#m        F#7
New money, young, rich, and wild

B
Revelled, reviled

E                   C#m
Don't you want that new money

F#7
Filling your pocket

B
Spend it while you got it

                      C#m
Heaven knows if it'll last

F#7               B
Boats against the current

E                C#m
Push against the tide

   B        C
We ride, we ride, we ride

   Dm    C        F  Dm    C   A
We ride, woah-oh, oh yeah, ooh

            Dm
I want that new money, crisp money

G7
Straight-from-the-mint money

C7
Fresh money, young money

F                BbM7  E7
Push against the tide

   Eb7      A7
We ride, we ride

                Dm
Don't want that old money, bling money

G7
Comes with strings money

C7
Cold money, funny money

F                BbM7  E7
Push against the tide

   Eb7               A7
We ride, we ride, we ride

                Dm
We ride / yeah, oh!