[00:16.10]Think you can lick it get to the wicket buy you a ticket go
[00:19.70]Go by bus by plane by car by train
[00:21.50]New york new york what they call a somethin else town
[00:29.01]A city of more than 8 million
[00:31.99]People with a million people passing through everyday
[00:36.64]Some come just to visit and some come to stay
[00:41.18]If you scuffle hard enough then you ain't no dunce
[00:46.10]You can always get by in new york city I heard somebody say once
[00:55.42]Yeah if you can't make it in new york city man
[00:58.40]You can't make it nowhere
[01:00.41]So where do people come to scuffle right here
[01:07.02]Think you can lick it get to the wicket buy you a ticket go
[01:13.36]New york new york a city so nice they had to name it twice
[01:34.21]It may seem like a cold town
[02:04.04]But man let me tell you it's a soul town
[02:22.15]And it ain't a bit hard to find someone who's lonesome or forlorn here
[03:02.76]But it's like a needle in a haystack to find someone who was born here
[04:26.08]New york new york a somethin else town alright
[04:32.97]East side west side uptown downtown
[04:37.59]There's one thing all of new york city has
[05:01.09]And that's jazz
[05:22.23]A while ago there were cats reading while cats played jazz behind them
[06:05.46]There was nothing happenin so the musicians cooked
[06:41.04]Right on like they didn't even mind em
[07:56.44]I wrote the shortest jazz poem ever heard
[09:04.34]Nothing bout huggin kissin one word
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