| Wow, New York City
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| I need a cap
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| Yo — taxi!
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| Thanks a lot, man, for picking me up
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| (Taxi Driver:)
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| Where are you going, buddy?
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| (Rick James:)
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| Ohhm, bring me up to 125th street, Lexington Avenue, man
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| (Taxi Driver:)
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| Nah, no way, I am sorry, man, I ain’t going up there
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| (Rick James:)
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| What do you mean, you sorry, you can’t take me up there?
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| (Taxi Driver:)
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| Ah no, get outta my cab, I am not going into Harlem
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| (Rick James:)
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| What do you mean?
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| You can’t leave me in the middle of the street in Manhattan
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| Just like that
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| Wow, is this a trick?
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| Better call me another cab
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| Yo — taxi!
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| I hope it’s a brother this time
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| When I want to get down, I go to New York town
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| There I can party all night
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| When I walk in the door that’s where you’ve been before
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| The freaks are there to give me delight
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| The Ladies there are everywhere
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| And we party from night time 'till dawn
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| Then I get up at 10 and do it all again
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| I could never stop getting it on
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| People rushing
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| Uptown, under the ground
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| The subways, to Manhattan in old New York
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| (New York town)
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| People hurry
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| Why should they have to hurry?
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| There’s always a party in old New York
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| (New York town)
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| When I want to get high, up on my jet I’ll fly
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| To the city where you never come down
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| I walk in Central Park, but never after dark
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| 'Cause you never know who’s hanging around
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| The Puerto Rican girls, their hair is curled
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| And the sisters are as fine as can be
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| Even the girls are a trick, they say was half as slick
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| And it’s the only place where you can be free
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| People rushing
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| Uptown, under the ground
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| The subways, to Manhattan in old New York
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| (New York town)
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| People hurry
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| Why should they have to hurry?
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| There’s always a party in old New York
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| (New York town)
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| People rushing
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| Uptown, under the ground
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| The subways, to Manhattan in old New York
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| (New York town)
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| People hurry
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| Why should they have to hurry?
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| There’s always a party in old New York
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| (New York town)
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| (Ohh, uhh)
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| New York
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| Wow: New York
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| New York
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| New York City, New York
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| New York
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| Well, New York
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| New York
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| New York
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| Yeah, New York
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| New York
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| New York City, New York
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| Yeah, yeah |