In Jackson Heights
Esus capo on 4th fret, play in C
Verses: Am Am+B(step up on A string) C G F
Chorus: C(+G on High E) G(+D on B string step down to C and then open) Am F
MacDougall filled in the marshes
That filtered the rain
On the three hundred acres
He’d managed to obtain
They built little garden houses
For a quiet family life
And a bridge to connect them
Back to the greater hive
And now,
It’s a gathering of hands
Waving up the air
Down in the lowlands
It’s a little green world
Wrapped in red brick lights
In Jackson Heights
In Jackson Heights
Then up rose the suburbs
And folks they called white
Went eastbound and northward
For a more bucolic life
And the folks who came after
Well, they came from everywhere
Like the world saw an opening
And just poured into there
And now,
It’s a gathering of hands
Waving up the air
Down in the lowlands
It’s a little green world
Wrapped in red brick lights
In Jackson Heights
In Jackson Heights
And there’s a word for what it is
And some people want it gone
But there’s noplace in this world
That nobody don’t belong
And the more of it they kill
The more it rushes in again
Like the water in the marshes
Beneath the elevated train
And now,
It’s a gathering of hands
Waving up the air
Down here in the lowlands
It’s a little green world
Wrapped in red brick lights
In Jackson Heights
In Jackson Heights