Key: G major•
Verse 1
A lot of the songs you hear nowadays
they're all the glamour kind on 42nd Street,
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Broadway theatres, you hear
them all the time.
wonderful town.
Let's go to New York on
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our vacation
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where all those songs are written,
this is written down in the United
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States.
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I thought I seen some ups and downs
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Till I rambled into New York town
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ground
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People goin' up to the sky
He started rubbin' his
hands through my hair.
I run to 10 hot dog stands,
four movie houses,
and a couple of dancing studios
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back on the subway.
as I grabbed hold of that old
subway car.
from a rockin' road and reelin'
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ride
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Greenwich Village
Folklore Center
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Izzy Young Theodore McKell
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Well, walked down there and I ended up in
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And I'd get on the stage, sing and play
A man there say,
come back some other day
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We want folk singers here
for a dollar a day
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I blowed inside out an
d upside down
The man there said
he's crazy about the sound
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A dollar a day's worth
After weeks and weeks of
I finally got a job in New York town
And a bigger place, bigger money too
I even joined the union and paid my dues
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Six months in advance
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Now, some very great man, he once said,
some people rob you with a
fountain pen.
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to find out just what he was talking about.
But they got a lot of forks,
a lot of knives.
And they got to cut something,
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watch out
So one morning when the
I rambled out of New York town
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Pulled my cap down over my eyes
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Howdy, East Orange!
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Em
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APPLAUSE
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G C Em
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