
Date of issue: 09.03.2015
Record label: Pax
Song language: English
The Mayor of MacDougal Street |
He’s been gone for many years now, that’s for certain. |
Left a vacant spot no man can fill. |
They closed the hall and someone drew the curtain. |
No one’s replaced him yet — no one will. |
Hangin' around the Gaslight back in the day, |
Laughin' with Dave Van Ronk and hearin' him play |
It was Green, Green Rocky Road and play it as it lays, |
The devil’s on the bandstand, it’s a helluva tune he plays. |
But the devil puts down his banjo and he reaches for the booze |
When the Mayor of MacDougal Street’s playin' the blues. |
When Dave Van Ronk sat down, the room got quiet. |
He strummed a lazy chord on his Guild guitar. |
Sounds so sweet, it made you wanna try it; |
It made you dream of swingin' on a star. |
Hangin' around the Gaslight back in the day, |
Laughin' with Dave Van Ronk and hearin' him play |
It was Green, Green Rocky Road and play it as it lays, |
The devil’s on the bandstand, it’s a helluva tune he plays. |
But the devil puts down his banjo and he reaches for the booze |
When the Mayor of MacDougal Street’s playin' the blues. |
Never knew a man to suffer fools less gladly. |
Or to view this world of ours with more jaundiced eye. |
I miss this friend of mine, I miss him badly |
In this pygmy world, a giant came stompin' by. |
Hangin' around the Gaslight back in the day, |
Laughin' with Dave Van Ronk and hearin' him play |
It was Green, Green Rocky Road and play it as it lays, |
The devil’s on the bandstand, it’s a helluva tune he plays. |
But the devil puts down his banjo and he reaches for the booze |
When the Mayor of MacDougal Street’s playin' the blues. |
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