[00:07.16]Sometimes when I'm driving late in the night
[00:10.18]When there's that special kind of early morning light
[00:14.05]When the evergreen stands out in the dark
[00:17.69]I'm thinking about that northern state of New York and New York
[00:28.42]New York state was good to me
[00:31.91]'Cause I found a wife and made a family
[00:35.37]If anyone asks what it means to me
[00:38.66]Well it's the nearest to home I'll ever be in New York
[00:45.92]New York
[00:49.57]New York city's just a part of the state
[00:52.71]Some people hate it, I think it's great
[00:56.35]It's an honest city, won't tell you a lie
[01:00.27]And take your money and look you straight in the eye, New York
[01:09.60]When the city got too much to take
[01:13.95]When the pressure built up and we thought we'd break
[01:17.89]When everyone else was a'heading south
[01:21.03]We went our own way and we a'headed north of New York
[01:31.96]New York state was good to me
[01:34.74]'Cause I found a wife and made a family
[01:38.18]If anyone asks what it means to me
[01:41.95]Well it's the nearest to home I'll ever be in New York
[01:48.50]New York
[01:52.80]Well I wish I could take that trip again
[01:56.46]Five hundred miles up to Lake Champlain
[01:59.72]Fishing for supper in a home made boat
[02:03.24]The love we made and the songs I wrote of New York
[02:13.49]And we rented a house on the Long Island sand
[02:17.22]Where work in the city was close at hand
[02:20.47]In the summer we swam in the Montauk Bay
[02:24.10]And England felt so far away from New York
[02:35.09]New York state was good to me
[02:37.77]'Cause I found a wife and made a family
[02:41.38]If anyone asks what it means to me
[02:44.73]Well it's the nearest to home I'll ever be in New York
[02:52.04]New York
[02:55.11]And it may sound strange that an Englishman
[02:59.30]Should lose his heart to a foreign land
[03:02.55]Maybe it's because I've a'been away
[03:05.96]Too long from her, it's hard to say, New York
[03:17.04]New York state was good to me
[03:19.77]'Cause I found a wife and made a family
[03:24.02]If anyone asks what it means to me
[03:26.63]Well it's the nearest to home I'll ever be in New York
[03:33.72]New York
[03:37.40]New York