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I happen to like New York, I happen to love this town
I like the city air, I like to drink of it
The more I see New York, the more I think of it
I like the sight and the sound and even the stink of it
I happen to like New York
I like to go to Battery Park and watch the liners booming in
I often ask myself why should it be
That they come so far across the sea?
I suppose it's because they all agree with me
They happen to like New York
Last Sunday afternoon, I took a trip to Hackensack
But after I gave Hackensack the once over
I took the next train back
I happen to like New York
And oh, the Easter Show at the Music Hall
A perfect delight
And oh, pastrami on rye at the Carnegie Deli
There's joy in each pie
And Madison Square for a Friday night fight
Or a walk along Broadway to guest at the lights
And at Carnegie Hall where the atmosphere's right
Life at the lights, at the night
I happen to like New York, I happen to love this burg
And when I have to give the world my last farewell
And the undertaker comes to ring my funeral bell
I don't wanna go to heaven, don't wanna go to
I happen to like New York, I happen to like New York
I happen to like New York
- Album:
- Miscellaneous
- Live At The Café Carlyle
- Bobby Short Is K-RA-ZY For Gershwin
- Bobby Short On the East Side
- The Mad Twenties
- Bobby Short On The East Side (US Release)
- Bobby Short: Late Night At the Cafe Carlyle
- Mercer & Short: Second Town Hall (Live At Town Hall)
- At Town Hall (Live)
- Mercer & Short: Second Town Hall (Live)
- Late Night At The Cafe Carlyle
- Bobby Short at the Cafe Carlyle
- Jazz & the City
- At Town Hall
- Jazz Nostalgia
- Songs of New York: Live at the Cafe Carlyle
- Songs By Bobby Short
- Songs of New York
- 50 by Bobby Short
- Greatest Vocal Classics