Hard Times In New York Town-Bob Dylan

[ti:Hard Times in New York Town (Live)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Live Radio Session 1962] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hard Times In New York Town - Bob Dylan [00:03.24]Come you ladies and you gentlemen [00:20.72]A-listen to my song [00:21.82]Sing it to you right but you might think it's wrong [00:23.80]Just a little glimpse of a story I'll tell [00:26.08]Bout an east coast city that you all know well [00:28.30]It's hard in times from the country [00:30.39]Livin down in new york town [00:32.40]Old new york city a is friendly old town [00:38.95]From washington heights to harlem on down [00:40.90]Theres a-mighty many people all millin all around [00:43.03]They'll kick you when you're up [00:44.67]And knock you when you're down [00:45.55]It's hard times form the country [00:47.28]Livin down in new york town [00:49.23]Well the weak and the strong [00:55.78]And the rich and the poor [00:57.01]Gather together ain't room for no more [00:58.82]Crowded up above crowded down below [01:00.73] [01:01.28]And when someone disappears [01:02.22]You never even know [01:03.26]It's hard times from the country [01:05.25]Livin' down in New York town [01:07.27]It's a mighty long ways from the Golden Gate [01:11.06]To Rockefeller Plaza an' the Empire State [01:13.28]Mister Empire sets up as high as a bird [01:15.54]And old Mister Rockefeller never says a word [01:17.86]It's hard times from the country [01:19.88]Livin' down in New York town [01:21.74]Well it's up in the mornin' [01:25.24]Tryin' to fins a job of work [01:26.64]Stand in one place [01:27.42]Till your feet begin to hurt [01:28.37]If you got a lot o' money [01:29.69]You can make yourself merry [01:30.45]If you only got a nickel [01:31.96]It's the Staten Island Ferry [01:32.72]It's hard times from the country [01:34.61]Livin' down in New York town [01:36.58]I'll take all the smog in Californeay [01:40.50]An' every bit of dust in the Oklahoma plains [01:42.91]An' the dirt in the caves of [01:44.13]The Rocky Mountain mines [01:45.10]It's all much cleaner than the New York kind [01:47.09]It's hard times in the country [01:48.96]Livin' down in New York town [01:50.76]Mister Hudson come a-sailin' down the stream [01:54.88]And old Mister Minuet paid for his dream [01:56.97]Bought your city on a one-way track [01:59.12]'F I had my way I'd sell it right back [02:01.26]It's hard times from the country [02:03.24]Livin' down in New York town [02:05.28]Said all you newsy people [02:08.17]That spread the news around [02:09.07]You listen to my story you listen to my song [02:11.31]You can step on my name [02:12.48]You can try an' get me beat [02:13.67]When I leave New York [02:14.79]I'll be standin' on my feet [02:15.92]It's hard times from the country [02:17.71]Livin' down in New York town