[00:16.29]Think you can lick it get to the wicket buy you a ticket go
[00:19.47]Go by bus by plane by car by train
[00:21.30]New york new york what they call a somethin else town
[00:24.66]A city of more than 8 million
[00:26.22]People with a million people passing through everyday
[00:28.08]Some come just to visit and some come to stay
[00:30.27]If you scuffle hard enough then you ain't no dunce
[00:32.72]You can always get by in new york city i heard somebody say once
[00:35.97]Yeah if you can't make it in new york city man
[00:38.58]You can't make it nowhere
[00:39.66]So where do people come to scuffle right here
[00:42.57]Think you can lick it get to the wicket buy you a ticket go
[00:45.90]New york new york a city so nice they had to name it twice
[00:48.24]It may seem like a cold town
[00:49.86]But man let me tell you it's a soul town
[00:52.23]And it ain't a bit hard to find someone who's lonesome or forlorn here
[00:56.76]But it's like a needle in a haystack to find someone who was born here
[01:01.11]New york new york a somethin else town alright
[01:03.69]East side west side uptown downtown
[01:04.62]There's one thing all of new york city has
[01:07.08]And that's jazz
[01:07.56]A while ago there were cats reading while cats played jazz behind them
[01:11.61]There was nothing happenin so the musicians cooked
[01:15.33]Right on like they didn't even mind em
[01:18.30]I wrote the shortest jazz poem ever heard
[01:20.52]Nothing bout huggin kissin one word
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