Manhattan - Rosemary Clooney

We’ll have Manhattan

The Bronx and Staten Island too

It’s lovely going through the zoo

It’s very fancy

On old Delancey Street, you know

The subway charms us so

When balmy breezes blow to and fro

And tell me what street

Compares with Mott Street in July?

Sweet pushcarts gently gliding by

The great big city’s a wondrous toy

Just made for a girl and boy

We’ll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy

We’ll go to the Greenwich

Where modern man itch to be free

And Bowling Green you’ll see with me

We’ll bathe at Brighton

The fish you’ll frighten when you’re in

Your bathing suit so thin

Will make the shellfish grin, fin to fin

And South Pacific

Is a terrific show they say

We both may see it close some day

The city’s clamor can never spoil

The dreams of a boy and goil

We’ll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy

We’ll have Manhattan

The Bronx and Staten Island too

We’ll try to cross Fifth Avenue

As black as onyx

We’ll find the Bronnix Park Express

Our Flatbush flat, I guess

Will be a great success, more or less

A short vacation

On Inspiration Point we’ll spend

And in the station house we’ll end

But Civic Virtue cannot destroy

The dreams of a

We’ll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy