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Think you can lick it get to the wicket buy you a ticket go |
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Go by bus by plane by car by train |
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New york new york what they call a somethin else town |
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A city of more than 8 million |
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People with a million people passing through everyday |
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Some come just to visit and some come to stay |
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If you scuffle hard enough then you ain't no dunce |
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You can always get by in new york city i heard somebody say once |
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Yeah if you can't make it in new york city man |
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You can't make it nowhere |
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So where do people come to scuffle right here |
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Think you can lick it get to the wicket buy you a ticket go |
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New york new york a city so nice they had to name it twice |
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It may seem like a cold town |
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But man let me tell you it's a soul town |
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And it ain't a bit hard to find someone who's lonesome or forlorn here |
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But it's like a needle in a haystack to find someone who was born here |
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New york new york a somethin else town alright |
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East side west side uptown downtown |
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There's one thing all of new york city has |
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And that's jazz |
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A while ago there were cats reading while cats played jazz behind them |
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There was nothing happenin so the musicians cooked |
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Right on like they didn't even mind em |
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I wrote the shortest jazz poem ever heard |
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Nothing bout huggin kissin one word |
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Listen |