Manhattan-George Russell

[ti:Manhattan] [ar:George Russell] [al:New York, N.Y.] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Manhattan - George Russell [00:04.40]Think you can lick it get to the wicket buy you a ticket go [00:08.88] [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 [00:34.57]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 [01:23.73]Listen