[00:45.53]I happen to like New York, I happen to like this town.
[00:54.47]I like the city air, I like to drink of it,
[00:59.37]The more I know New York the more I think of it.
[01:03.73]I like the sight and the sound and even the stink of it.
[01:08.65]I happen to like New York.
[01:15.68]I like to go to Battery Park and watch those liners booming in.
[01:24.96]I often ask myself
[01:27.66]why should it be that they should come so far from across the sea.
[01:34.10]I suppose it's because they all agree with me.
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[01:39.18]They happen to like New York.
[01:46.34]Last Sunday afternoon I took a trip to Hackensack,
[01:54.62]But after I gave Hackensack the once over
[01:59.47]I took the next train back.
[02:06.69]I happen to like New York. I happen to love this burg.
[02:15.56]And when I have to give the world a last farewell,
[02:20.43]And the undertaker starts to ring my funeral bell,
[02:24.98]I don't want to go to heaven, don't want to go to hell.
[02:29.63]I happen to like New York.
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[02:36.61]I happen to like New York.
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