[00:00.00]Manhattan - George Russell
[00:04.40]Think you can lick it get to the wicket buy you a ticket go
[00:10.45]Go by bus by plane by car by train
[00:14.04]New york new york what they call a somethin else town
[00:17.82]A city of more than 8 million
[00:19.36]People with a million people passing through everyday
[00:22.59]Some come just to visit and some come to stay
[00:25.57]If you scuffle hard enough then you ain't no dunce
[00:28.18]You can always get by in new york city i heard somebody say once
[00:32.49]Yeah if you can't make it in new york city man
[00:34.56]You can't make it nowhere
[00:36.43]So where do people come to scuffle right here
[00:39.91]Think you can lick it get to the wicket buy you a ticket go
[00:43.25]New york new york a city so nice they had to name it twice
[00:47.41]It may seem like a cold town
[00:49.68]But man let me tell you it's a soul town
[00:52.48]And it ain't a bit hard to find someone who's lonesome or forlorn here
[00:56.25]But it's like a needle in a haystack to find someone who was born here
[01:00.40]New york new york a somethin else town alright
[01:03.66]East side west side uptown downtown
[01:06.20]There's one thing all of new york city has
[01:08.51]And that's jazz
[01:09.89]A while ago there were cats reading while cats played jazz behind them
[01:13.10]There was nothing happenin so the musicians cooked
[01:15.03]Right on like they didn't even mind em
[01:17.10]I wrote the shortest jazz poem ever heard
[01:19.75]Nothing bout huggin kissin one word
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