[00:02.47]Oh I come from Pittsburgh to study astrology
[00:06.09]She said as she stepped on my instep
[00:10.85]I could show you New York with a walk between Fourth Street and Nine
[00:18.97]Then out of her coat taking seven harmonicas
[00:22.59]She sat down to play on a doorstep
[00:26.60]Saying 'Come back to my place I will show you the stars and the signs
[00:34.53]So I followed her into the black lands
[00:38.41]Where the window frames peel and flake
[00:42.02]And the old Jewish face behind the lace
[00:45.28]Even now trying to get to see what's cooking
[00:49.96]Just John the Baptist in the park getting laid thinking there's no-one looking
[00:58.16]And its eighty degrees and I'm down on my knees in Brooklyn
[01:10.38]Her house was a dusty collection of rusty
[01:13.81]Confusion with landings and tunnels
[01:18.30]And leaning bookcases and spaces and faces and things
[01:25.73]Where twenty-five Puerto Ricans  Manhattan Mohicans
[01:30.38]And Jewish-Italian Pawnbrokers
[01:33.76]Lead their theatrical lives in their rooms in the wings
[01:41.68]While outside in the black lands
[01:45.44]The violent day runs wild
[01:49.31]And the black and white minstrels run through the crazy
[01:51.69]Alleys while the cops go booking
[01:57.10]And ruthless toothless agents sneak around and there's no-one looking
[02:05.04]And it's eighty degrees and I'm down on my knees in Brooklyn
[02:13.30]And oh  I'm back in the city again
[02:21.66]You can tell by the smell of the hamburger stand in the rain
[02:29.97]She spoke of astrology while muttering apologies
[02:34.10]For coffee that tasted of hot dogs
[02:37.84]I said 'That's OK  mine was cold anyway  and just grand'
[02:45.73]Then she lay on the bed while the radio fed
[02:49.11]Us with records and adverts for cat food
[02:53.54]And I looked at her  holding my thoughts in the palm of my hand
[03:01.39]And outside in the black lands
[03:05.29]The evening came and went
[03:09.09]And the bums in the street begging money for one last drink
[03:11.28]Are hanging round the liquor stores trying to get a foot in
[03:16.82]And the girl from Pittsburgh and
[03:18.26]I made love on a mattress with the new moon looking
[03:24.45]And in the cool evening breeze I was down on my knees in Brooklyn
[03:29.88]In Brooklyn(2007 - Remaster) - Al Stewart