Manhattan

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

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