Manhattan - Rico-George Russell

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