(no subject)
Let gay Paree boast of her famous museums
her bridges, cathedrals, and wide avenues
and the women so fair that you'd faint just to see them
walking down streets and lanes, and cobbled mews
New York's five boroughs fair where car alarms fill the air
at all hours of the morning are dearer by far
Wall Street and Times Square, Subways with no compare
Greenwich Village, Prospect and Central Park
Enthroned on an isle in New York's broad harbor
the statue of Liberty shall stand evermore
with ships passing by on both port and on starboard
lifting her lamp by the golden door
Here in my boroughs five, I've seen them grow and thrive
and rise 'bove the problems the world had in store
firm as Manhattan Schist, we've marched boldly through the midst
of drug lords, of white flight, Al Qaeda, and more
But see how quickly her schools are improving
new neighborhoods rising, (rich and secure)
and back to the city suburbanites moving
(falling once more to the Big Apple's lure)
See how into the skies newly-built towers rise
the reflecting pool marking the three thousand graves
They may cast it down, but then New York will rise again
Capital of all the world, New York the Brave
See how into the skies newly-built towers rise
the reflecting pool marking the three thousand graves
They may cast it down, but then New York will rise again
Capital of all the world, New York the Brave
Capital of all the world, New York the Brave
-Luke Reynolds & JC Ravage
To the tune of "Scotland the Brave"
her bridges, cathedrals, and wide avenues
and the women so fair that you'd faint just to see them
walking down streets and lanes, and cobbled mews
New York's five boroughs fair where car alarms fill the air
at all hours of the morning are dearer by far
Wall Street and Times Square, Subways with no compare
Greenwich Village, Prospect and Central Park
Enthroned on an isle in New York's broad harbor
the statue of Liberty shall stand evermore
with ships passing by on both port and on starboard
lifting her lamp by the golden door
Here in my boroughs five, I've seen them grow and thrive
and rise 'bove the problems the world had in store
firm as Manhattan Schist, we've marched boldly through the midst
of drug lords, of white flight, Al Qaeda, and more
But see how quickly her schools are improving
new neighborhoods rising, (rich and secure)
and back to the city suburbanites moving
(falling once more to the Big Apple's lure)
See how into the skies newly-built towers rise
the reflecting pool marking the three thousand graves
They may cast it down, but then New York will rise again
Capital of all the world, New York the Brave
See how into the skies newly-built towers rise
the reflecting pool marking the three thousand graves
They may cast it down, but then New York will rise again
Capital of all the world, New York the Brave
Capital of all the world, New York the Brave
-Luke Reynolds & JC Ravage
To the tune of "Scotland the Brave"