Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Oh, there I stood
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in the great big city
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Where the buildings tall and
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the girls're all pretty
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Up stepped a man he said, "Come here, son
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I got a big deal now if you got the mon'"
I bought the Brooklyn Bridge
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With two dollars, two cigarettes and an
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autograph picture of Elvis
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Well, I kept my
Verse 2
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bridge for a day or so
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But then my money was runnin' low
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And I tried to make me a sale
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But the man done come
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and he took me to jail
Verse 3
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Said I's crazy, laughed at me
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Told me that society frowned upon it
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Well, then he stood me
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up in a front of a judge
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I stood there grinnin' but
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the judge didn't budge
Verse 4
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He said 30 dollars or 30 days
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And I looked at him and all I could say
Was, "I'd take that 30 dollars,
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couldn't make that 35, could you?
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Spend all my money on that bridge"
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Well, after
Verse 5
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90 days in that man's jail
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I still tryin' to make me a sale
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Met some cat called Skid Row Pete
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So I traded it off for 52nd Street
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Big deal, oh big man of action
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A big transaction
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Verse 6
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I bet the folks back home
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could never realize
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That in a great big town this size
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Boy like theirs could own the street
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Spend his days just to
keepin' it neat
Verse 7
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Pickin' up cigarette butts,
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wine bottles
Terrorizing the pedestrians,
shoo them pigeons
I bet old Skid Row Pete
ain't got no pigeons
On that Brooklyn Bridge
And I bet he can't trade that
bridge off either
Because a man gonna come
take him down
Ain't that bad?
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