Album Name

New York Story

Artist

Nellie McKay, Various Artists

Genre

POP

Release Date

2011.11.17

Release Agency

Sony Music

Manhattan Avenue - Nellie McKay
Send a breeze a pitbull's yelp
A tender squeeze a cry for help
Make it now and make it fast
Such memories can never last
I long for the day music and mayhem
Mama's a smiling friend
In the scuzzy hue of the sunlight
Manhattan avenue
Lionel please watch over our door
The children tease I beg for more
Chipping paint the ceiling's spent
Oh ain't it great can't make the rent
I long for the days
kittens are mewling
Junkies are prowling
Deep in the jazzy hue
of the streetlight
Manhattan avenue

How wild it is what strange a vice
That a mugger and a child
should share the same paradise
Oh but dreams come true
On Manhattan avenue