Manhattan
Ethel Merman

Summer journeys
To Niagara
And to other places
Aggravate all our cares
We'll save our fares

I've a cozy little flat
In what is known as old Manhattan
We'll settle down
Right here in town

We'll have Manhattan
The Bronx and Staten Island, too
It's lovely going through
The zoo

It's very fancy
On old Delancey Street, you know
The subway charms us so
When balmy breezes blow
To and fro

And tell me what street
Compares with Mott Street
In July
Sweet pushcarts gently gliding by

The great big city's a wondrous toy
Just made for a girl and boy
We'll turn Manhattan
Into an isle of joy

We'll go to Greenwich
Where modern men itch
To be free
And Bowling Green you'll see
With me

We'll bathe at Brighton
The fish you'll frighten
When you're in
Your bathing suit so thin
Will make the shellfish grin
Fin to fin

I'd like to take a
Sail on Jamaica Bay with you
And fair Canarsie's lake
We'll view

The city's bustle cannot destroy
The dreams of a girl and boy
We'll turn Manhattan
Into an isle of joy

We'll go to Yonkers
Where true love conquers
In the wilds
And starve together, dear
In Childs'

We'll go to Coney
And eat baloney
On a roll
In Central Park we'll stroll
Where our first kiss we stole
Soul to soul

Our future babies
We'll take to Abie's Irish Rose
I hope they'll live to see
It close

The city's clamor can never spoil
The dreams of a boy and goil
We'll turn Manhattan
Into an isle of joy

We'll have Manhattan
The Bronx and Staten Island, too
We'll try to cross Fifth Avenue
As black as onyx

We'll find the Bronnix Park Express
Our Flatbush flat, I guess
Will be a great success
More or less

A short vacation
On Inspiration Point
We'll spend
And in the station house we'll end

But civic virtue cannot destroy
The dreams of a girl and boy
We'll turn Manhattan
Into an isle of joy


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Lyrics by Ethel Merman

  Always True To You In My Fashion [Kiss Me Kate]   Anything Goes   Anything Goes [From Anything Goes]   Autumn Leaves   Beat Out Dat Rhythm On a Drum [Carmen Jones]   Blow, Gabriel, Blow   Blow, Gabriel, Blow [Original Cast]   Blue Skies   But Not for Me   Dearie   Dearie [From Copacabana Revue]   Dearie [From the Copacabana Show of 1950]   Do I Love You? [From Du Barry Was A Lady]   Down in the Depths   Down in the Depths (On the 90th Floor)   Down in the Depths [Original Cast]   Eadie Was a Lady   Eadie Was a Lady [From Take A Chance]   Embraceable You   Embraceable You [From Girl Crazy]   Friendship   Friendship [*]   Friendship [From Du Barry Was a Lady]   Friendship [From Dubarry Was A Lady]   Heat Wave   Heat Wave [From As Thousands Cheer]   Heatwave   How Deep Is the Ocean   How Deep Is the Ocean?   I Get a Kick Out of You   I Get a Kick Out of You [*]   I Get a Kick Out of You [From Anything Goes]   I Get a Kick Out of You [Original Cast]   I Got Lost In His Arms   I Got Rhythm   I Got Rhythm [From Girl Crazy]   I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues   I Said My Pajamas   I Said My Pajamas (And Put on My Prayers)   I'm An Indian Too   Just in Time   Just One of Those Things   Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries   Make it Another Old Fashioned, Please   Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please [From Panama...   Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please   Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please [From Panama...   Make the Man Love Me [From A Tree Grows in Brookly...   Mandy   Me and My Shadow   Moonshine Lullaby   Mr. Goldstone   My Funny Valentine   My Funny Valentine   Someone to Watch Over Me   Something for the Boys   Something for the boys [From Something for the Boy...   Stardust   Sunrise, Sunset   Sweet Georgia Brown   That Old Feeling   The Best Thing for You   The Lady in Red   The Lady in Red [From in Caliente]   The Most Beautiful Girl in the World   Together (Wherever We Go)   Together (Wherever We Go) [From Gypsy]   Together Wherever We Go   Together, Wherever We Go [From Gypsy]   Ukulele Lady   Way Down Yonder in New Orleans   When My Sugar Walks Down the Street   Whispering   You're The Top

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