Intro: Dm C (2x) 

Dm          C   
30 blocks to Fordham Road,  
Dm           C 
That's a bad neighborhood,  
Dm              Am 
Gray house on the corner,  
Dm                     Am          C         D 
I know I shouldn't do what it is I could.  

Dm                   C 
The stone Mary in the garden, 
Dm                  C  
She let me know she watching,  
Dm                   Am  
She said I better get walking,  
Dm             Am       C       D 
I better walk away.  

Am                  C                Dm      D 
I don't know why it is that I wanna stay,  
Am                   C                Dm        D 
I don't know what it is that makes me feel this way,  
Am                G                  D 
But I'm not gonna do what I hear me say,  
Am             G 
I'm just gonna walk,  
               D        Dm 
I'm gonna walk away.  

Dm               C                Dm            C 
I catch a dollar in the wind and I buy a cup of coffee,  
Dm                 Am              Dm                  Am 
There's a place on Valentine that still charge ninety cent.  
Dm                       C           Dm                   C 
I keep on walking in the daytime and in my eyes it's always night time,  
Dm                    Am 
And I like it when it's me at night,  
Dm                         Am         C        
'Cause that's when all the stars come out. 

Am      C    Am      C     D 
Oh......     Oh...... 

Am                  C                Dm      D 
I don't know why it is that I wanna stay,  
Am                 C                  Dm         D 
I don't know what it is that makes me feel this way, 
Am                 G                 D  
But I'm not gonna do what I hear me say,  
Am               G 
I'm just gonna walk,  
                D        Dm 
I'm gonna walk away.  

Am          C 
It's the greatest,  
                  Dm  D 
It's the greatest day.  
Am          C    
It's the greatest,  
                  Dm  D 
It's the greatest day.  

Am            G                  D 
I'm not gonna do what I hear me say,  
Am              G 
I'm just gonna walk,  
                D 
I'm gonna walk away.