New York's alright,
New York's alright,
New York's alright,
if you like saxophones!
New York's alright if you wanna be pushed in front of the subway!
New York's alright if you like tuberculosis!
New York's alright if you like art and jazz!
New York's alright if you're a homosexual!
New York's alright,
New York's alright,
New York's alright,
if you like saxophones!
New York's alright if you like drunks in your doorway!
New York's alright if you wanna freeze to death!
New York's alright if you wanna get mugged or murdered!
New York's alright if you like saxophones!
New York's alright,
New York's alright,
New York's alright,
if you like saxophones!
2 comments:
Trooper is rolling hot tonight. Maybe music will calm him to a simmer. I hope not.
I've only been to New York (Manhattan) twice. Once as a college student with friends just to party my ass off, and once in my 40's with a girlfriend to party my ass off in the way an older couple does that. I really enjoyed the city both times. The good, the bad, and the ugly was all worth the trip. Manhattan is a thick section of the tapestry, and that's what I - and I guess everyone else loves about it. Although I have lived in L.A. most of my life, I'm an unsophisticated small town Pennsylvania boy at my core.
The historical NY is what is fascinating, including how it has ended up today at the end of that long twisted trail. The modern Manhattan was, it seemed tome, a bit of a shadow of what came before. In the more recent visit a few years after 9/11, the city seemed to be lacking the depth of it's past as I imagined it. I was careful to listen to conversations around me in restaurants and bars. It was surprisingly one dimensional - all leftist, all surprisingly dismissive of the others, who people clearly did not understand. I listened over and over for another point of view and never heard it. Trooper, I feel your pain.
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