| A pair of new shoes with matching laces
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| A permanent box at the cheap set races
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| A porcelain tub with boiling water
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| A Saturday night with the mayors daughter
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| Look at me I’m the king of New York
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| Suddenly I’m respectable starin right at ya
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| Lousy with stature
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| Nobbin with all the muckety mucks
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| I’m blowin my dough and going deluxe then
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| there I be ain’t I pretty
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| it’s my city
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| I’m the King of New York
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| A corduroy suit with fitted knickers
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| A mezzanine seat to see the flickers
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| Havana cigars that cost a quarter
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| an editors desk for the star reporter
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| tip your hat hes the king of new york (how bout that i’m the king of new york)
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| in nothing flat he’ll be covering
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| Brooklyn to Trenton
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| our man Denton
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| making the headline out of hunch
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| protecting the weak
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| and paying for lunch
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| when i’m at bat
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| strong men crumble
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| proud yet humble
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| I’m the King of New York (He's the King of New York)
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| Gotta be either dead or dreamin
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| just look at that pape with my face beamin
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| tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it
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| but I was a star for one whole minute.
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| Starting now, I’m the king of New York
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| Ain’t ya heard I’m the King of New York
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| Holy Cow!
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| It’s a miracle
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| Pulitzer’s cryin, Weasel he’s dying
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| Flashpots are shooting bright as the sun
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| I’m one high falutin son of a gun
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| don’t ask me how fortune found me
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| fate just crowned me
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| Now I’m king of New York!
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| Look and see
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| once a piker now a striker
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| I’m the King of New York!
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| Victory front page story
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| guts and glory
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| I’m the King of New York |