Streets of New York-Wolfe Tones

[ti:Streets of New York] [ar:Wolfe Tones] [al:50th Anniversary Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.16]Streets of New York - Wolfe Tones [00:00.92]Written by：Wolfe Tones [00:01.94] [00:14.98]I was eighteen years old [00:17.00]When I went down to Dublin [00:19.52]With a fist full of money [00:21.63]And a cartload of dreams [00:23.58] [00:24.65]Take your time said my father [00:27.03]Stop rushing like hell [00:28.57] [00:29.46]And remember all's not [00:30.57] [00:31.28]What it seems to be [00:32.97] [00:34.58]For there's fellas who'd cut you [00:37.03]For the coat on your back [00:38.55] [00:39.19]Or that watch that you got from your mother [00:42.11] [00:43.37]So take care my young Buck [00:45.22] [00:45.85]And mind yourself well [00:47.32] [00:48.01]Would you give this wee note to my brother [00:50.80] [00:52.41]At the time uncle bendy was a policeman in Brooklyn [00:56.16] [00:56.88]And my father the youngest [00:58.95]Looked after the farm [01:00.28] [01:02.67]Til a phone call from [01:03.77] [01:04.37]America said send the lad over [01:05.98] [01:06.81]And my old fella said [01:08.48]Sure wouldn't do any harm [01:10.36] [01:11.93]For I've spent my life working this dirty old ground [01:16.06] [01:16.64]For a few pints of porter [01:18.59]And the smell of a pound [01:20.32] [01:21.09]Sure maybe there's something [01:22.65] [01:23.19]You'll learn or you'll see [01:25.06]And you can bring it back home [01:26.80] [01:27.58]Make it easier on me [01:29.52] [01:33.04]So I landed at Kennedy [01:35.34]And a big yellow taxi [01:37.43]Carried me and my bags [01:39.64]Through the streets and the rain [01:41.20] [01:42.82]Well my poor heart was thumping [01:45.15]Around with excitement [01:46.85] [01:47.52]And I hardly even heard [01:49.55]What the driver was saying [01:51.53] [01:52.80]We came in the shore parkway [01:54.55] [01:55.09]Through the flat lands in Brooklyn [01:57.25]To my uncle's apartment on east 53 rd [02:01.10] [02:01.68]I was feeling so happy [02:03.90]I was humming a song [02:05.35] [02:05.97]And I sang you're as free as a bird [02:08.60]Well to shorten the story [02:12.56]What I found out that day [02:14.89]Was that bendy got shot [02:16.80]Down in an uptown foray [02:18.62] [02:20.55]And while I was flying my way to new York [02:23.93] [02:24.81]Poor bendy was lying in a cold city morgue [02:28.63] [02:30.22]Well I called up my old fella [02:32.86]Told him the news [02:34.71]I could tell he could hardly [02:36.75]Stand up in his shoes [02:39.09]And he wept as he told me [02:40.81] [02:41.39]Go ahead with the plan [02:42.66] [02:43.69]And not to forget be a proud Irish man [02:47.36] [02:51.43]So I went up to Nellie's beside ford ham road [02:55.56]And I started to learn about lifting my load [02:59.71] [03:01.29]But the heaviest thing [03:02.86]That I carried that year [03:05.56]Was the bittersweet thoughts of [03:07.43] [03:07.94]My hometown so dear [03:09.71] [03:10.91]I went home that December cause my old fella died [03:15.47]I had to borrow the money [03:17.74]From a fella on the side [03:19.36] [03:20.06]And all the bright flowers and brass couldn't hide [03:23.56] [03:24.42]The poor wasted face of my father [03:27.40] [03:28.42]I sold off the old far yard for what it was worth [03:32.26] [03:33.39]And into my bag stuck a handful of earth [03:37.72] [03:38.40]Then I boarded a train and I caught me a plane [03:42.23] [03:42.84]And I found myself back in the u s again [03:47.09] [03:48.44]It's been twenty two years since I set foot in Dublin [03:52.27] [03:53.14]My kids know to use the correct knife and fork [03:57.61] [03:58.17]But I'll never forget the green grass and the rivers [04:02.79]As I keep law and order in the streets of new York