In The Heights - from the Official Motion Picture Soundtrack (Official Audio) Chords

_ Lights up on Washington Heights up at the break of day I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away
Pop the grate at the crack of dawn sing while I wipe down the awning
Hey yo, good morning
Ice [E] cold piragua, _ _ falchachina, cherry, strawberry and just for [Bb] today I got my mess
Oye, piragüero como esta?
Como siempre señor Usnavi _
Ice cold piragua, _ falchachina
I am Usnavi and you probably never [D] heard my name
[Gm] Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated
_ [N] _
Exacerbated by the fact that my [Eb] syntax is highly [F] complicated
Cause [Bbm] I immigrated from the single greatest little [Gb] place in the Caribbean
Dominican Republic, I [D] love it
Jesus, I'm [Am] jealous of [Gm] it and beyond that
Ever since my folks [Eb] passed on I haven't [F] gone back
God damn, I gotta get on that
_ [Bb] Oh, _ the milk is gone bad
Hold up just a second
[Gb] Why is everything in this fridge warm and tepid?
[Gm] I better step it up and fight the heat
Cause I'm not making any profit if the coffee isn't light and sweet
[D] _
[Gm] _ My _ _ fridge broke
I got café, but no con leche Ay Dios
Try my mother's old recipe
One [Eb] can of condensed milk _ Nice Oh, hey
[Bb] Your lottery ticket
_ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ Paciencia, Efe
[F] _
[Cm] _ _ [F] That [Bb] _ was [D] Abuela
She's not [Gm] really my Abuela
But she practically great
This corner is her escuela now
You [Db] probably [Gb] thinking
I'm up [Gm] shits creek
I've never been north of _ _ 96th street
[F] Well, you [Bb] must take [D] the A train
[Gm] Even farther than Harlem to [Eb] northern Manhattan and [Bb] maintain
Get off [Db] at [D] 181st [Gm] and take the escalator
I hope you writing this down, I'm gonna text you later
I'm getting [D] sick, it's time to tough [Gm] on this bodega
Two months ago somebody [Eb] bought Otaygas
Our [Bb] neighbors started packing up and [Gb] picking up
[Eb] And ever since the rest went up it's gotten [C] mad expensive
But we live [D] with just enough
In [G] the Heights
[Gbm] I [F] flip the lights
Start [Eb] my _ _ [Dbm] [D] day
_ [Ebm] _
[Gm] Fill up lights
[G] And [F] endless debts
And bills [Eb] to _ _ [D] pay _
_ [Gm] In the Heights
[Bm] I [F] can't survive without _ [Eb] café
_ [E] _ [D] _ _ _ [G] But tonight
She's [F] like a million [Cm] years _ away _
[D] _ In [Bb] Washington
Next up, ding [D] Kevin Rosario
He runs the [Gm] cab company
He struggles in the [Eb] barrio
See his [Bb] daughter Nina's off at college
[D] Tuition is mad steep
[Gm] So he can't sleep
Everything he get is [C] mad cheap
[Dm] Good _ morning, _ _ Usnavi
_ [G]
Pan caliente, café [Am] con leche
[Dm]
Put $20 [A] on [D] today's lottery
[Gm]
Okay, must be a lucky day Gotta [A] be
[Bb] Oh my [Ebm] god, you're so [Gm] excited
My Nina flew [Eb] in at 3am last [Dm] night
Sweet, _ [D] Abuela's been cooking all week
[Gm] Come by when I see you this [Cm] [C] weekend
Are we [G] gonna eat?
[A] So then [G] Yesenia walks [D] in the [G] room
[A] She [B] smells sex and she [Bm] perfumes
You [Gm] smell like one of those trees
[D] That you hang from the [Gm] roof
I [D] know, it's true
[G] She [A] screams, who's [G] in [D] there with you, [Bm] Julia?
[F] Daniela grabs [A] the [E] bat and [Bm] kicks in the door
[G] Charla is in [D] bed with Jose from the liquor [G] store
[D] _ No me diga
And [G] that's Cuca, [A] the salon ladies [D] Thanks, [G] Usnavi
_ _ [F] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ [Db] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [D] _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [Bm] Cuca
Sonny, [C] you're late
_ _ Chillax, _ you know you love me
_ _ _ Me and [Eb] my [Ab] cousin running
Just [Am] another dime a dozen
Mom and pop stop [F] and shout
And [G] oh my god, [C] it's gotten
Shoot on [D] hot [E] like my man [Am] Cole Porter said
People come through [F] for a few cold waters
[C] And the lottery [Ab] ticket's just a part of the routine
[Am] _
Everybody's got a [F] job
Everybody's got a [C] dream
They gossip, [Ab] that's not sip
My coffee is [Am] smirk
The first [Ab] stop is people hop to [F] work
I'm like, _ [C] one dollar, two [E] dollars
One fifty, one [Am] sixty-nine
I got it
[F] You want a box of [C] condos
What kind?
That's two quarters
Two quarter [E] waters
The New York Times
You [Am] need a bag for that
The tax is [F] added
Once you get some [C] practice at it
You do rapid mathematics
[E] _
Automatically sell [Am] a maxi pad
Fuzzy [F] diaper, taxicab
[C] Practically everybody stressed
[E]
Yes, but they press [F] through the mess
Bounce checks, you [E] wonder what next
In [Am] the Heights
I [G] buy my coffee and [F] I go
I [E] buy my coffee and [Am] set my sights
[G] On only what I [F] need to know
What [E] I need to know
In [Am] the Heights
[F]
[Em] Money is tight, but [F] even so Even [E] so
_ When [Am] the lights go down
[G] I've got my way
[F] _ _
_ [E] You ain't [Am] got no skills Ready
Don't let me get a [F] milky way Yup
And let me also get a [C] daily news
And a post
And the most important, [E] my
Boss is making coffee, wood cream, five [Am] sugars
I'm the number one earner What?
The fastest [F] learner What?
My boss can't keep me on the damn black burner
[C] Yes, he can
I'm making moves, I'm making deals
But [Am] guess what?
What?
You still ain't got no skills Artie Hall
Yo, Vanessa, show up [F] Yes Shut up
Hey, little homie, don't get so upset
[C] Man
Tell Vanessa how you feel
[E] I'm the girl of the meal on the real
You ain't got no [Dm] skills
No, _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
no, no, no, [Bb] no, _ no, no, no, no, _ [Db] _ no, no, no, no
[B] Mr.
Johnson, I got the [F] security
Closet is locked in a box in the bottom of [Gm] my closet
It's not reflected in my bank [Bb] statement
But I've been saving to make a [Dm] down payment in PayPlan
No, no, I won't let you down
Oh, here's your chance, ask her out right now
Alright, [Gm] I'll see you later, we can look at that please
Bro, do something, [A] make your move, don't freeze [D] Hey
You [G] owe me a love cold [Bm] shot _
[A] _ Are you [D] moving?
Just [G] a little credit check and I'm on [Bm] that _ [A] downtown train
Well, your [D] coffee's on the house [G] Okay
_ Who's Navi?
[D] Ask around [A] No way
I'll [D] see you later, _ so _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Yo, smooth [C] operator, [Gb] oh damn, there she [Gm] go
Yo, bro, take a walk outside, [Eb] you look exhausted
Boss, don't let life slide
[Bb] The whole hood is struggling
Times is tight
[Gm] And you're stuck to this corner like a streetlight _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Gm]
Yeah, I'm a streetlight choking on the heat
[F]
The world spins around while I'm frozen to my [Eb] seat
The people that I know all keep on rolling down the [D]
street
But every day is different [G] so I'm switching up the beat
My parents came with nothing
They got a little more, [F] and sure, we're poor
But yo, at least we got the store
[Eb] And it's all about the legacy they left with me It's destiny
[D] And one day I'll be on the beach with Sonny Wright and check
In [Gm] the heights, I [F] hang my flag upon [Gm] display
We came to work, [Dm] we came to live, and [D] we got a lot
[Gm] It reminds me that [F] I came from miles [Gm] away
B-R-P-R [Cm]-P-R-R-N-S [Gm]-D-O-P-P
In the heights, I'm _ [F] _ _
_ _ [D] _ here
Until the day we [E] go from poverty to starvation
[F] In the heights, I got [G] today
_ [F] Today's all we got, [G] so we cannot [F] [G] stop
This is [C] our block
In the [Am] heights, I [Ab] hang [G] my flag upon [F] display
_ _ [C] _ _
[E] _ It [Am] reminds me [G] that I came from [F] miles away
And [E] if it ain't from [A] miles away
[G] There's more expansion every [F] _ day _
[E] _ [Am] Every day
And tonight is [Em] so far [F] away
But as for Foniana, [Dm] Lee, Bonner
You gotta just keep rockin' your [E] seat
The late nights, you'll taste these in Bryce
[Am] This is a pipe of shaved ice
[E] I ain't gonna say it twice
[Am] In the heights _
Streetlighting, we takin' a flight
We're a couple [E] of days in the life of what it's like
In Washington [Am] Heights
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