| When I was just a young man
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| Stilled inside my teens
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| Stepped into your city streets
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| Stepped into a dream
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| America
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| Where all my heroes lay
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| The land of Miles and Elvis
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| Jerry Lee and Ray
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| And I came to love you New York
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| Your energy your honesty
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| City of a million dreams
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| You gave one up to me
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| New York
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| I walked into the Brooklyn Fox
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| That snowy Christmas Day
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| And Patty and the Blue Bells
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| Simply stole my heart away
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| She took me to Aretha Franklin
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| Showed me so much soul
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| And helped us join the party
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| With our English Rock and Roll
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| And I came to love you New York
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| Your energy your honesty every time
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| City of a million dreams
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| You gave one up to me
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| New York
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| Now I played so many times
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| Since nineteen sixty four
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| In cities all across the land
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| From shore to distant shore
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| And I loved the way the people
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| Always opened up their hearts
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| But I never will forget the things
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| The magic world I still embrace
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| The place I never could replace
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| That gave us such a start
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| And I’ve come to love you New York
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| Your energy your honesty every time
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| City of a million dreams
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| You gave one up to me
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| New York |