《Streets of New York》歌词

[00:00:00] Streets of New York - Bagatelle

[00:00:11] I was eighteen years old

[00:00:12] When I went down to Dublin

[00:00:15] With a fistfull of money

[00:00:16] And a cartload of dreams

[00:00:19] Take your time

[00:00:20] Said me father

[00:00:22] Stop rushing like hell

[00:00:24] And remember all is not

[00:00:26] What it hardly even heard what the driver was sayin

[00:00:31] We came in the Shore Parkway

[00:00:33] To the faltlands of Brooklyn

[00:00:35] To me uncle's apartment on East 53rd

[00:00:39] I was feeling so happy I was humming a song

[00:00:42] And I sang You're as free as a bird

[00:00:46] Well to shorten the story what I found out that

[00:00:50] Day then she got was shot down in an uptown

[00:00:53] Foray and while I was flying my way to New York

[00:00:59] Poor Benjy was lying in a cold city morgue

[00:01:03] Well I phoned up the old fella told him the news

[00:01:08] I could tell he could

[00:01:09] Hardly stand up in his shoes

[00:01:12] And he wept as he told me

[00:01:14] 'Go ahead with the plans

[00:01:16] And not to forget be a proud Irish man'

[00:01:23] So I went to Nellies beside Fordham road and

[00:01:27] I started to learn about lifting the load

[00:01:32] But the heaviest thing that I carried that year

[00:01:36] Was the bittersweet thought of my hometown so dear

[00:01:40] I went home that December 'cause the oul fella died

[00:01:45] Had to borrow the money from Phil on the side

[00:01:49] And all the bright flowers and brass couldn't hide

[00:01:53] The poor wasted face of me father

[00:01:56] I sold up the oul farmyard for what it

[00:01:59] Was worth and into my bag stuck

[00:02:03] A handful of earth I got you a train

[00:02:06] And that I caught me a plane

[00:02:09] I found meself back in the US again

[00:02:13] It's been 22yrs since

[00:02:15] I've set foot in Dublin

[00:02:18] Me kids know to use the correct knife and fork

[00:02:25] But I'll never forget the green grass and the rivers

[00:02:29] As I keep law and order in the streets of New York