《Streets of New York》歌词

歌曲： Streets of New York

所属专辑：50th Anniversary Concert

歌手： The Wolfe Tones

时长： 04:38

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Streets of New York - Wolfe Tones[00:00:00]

Written by：Wolfe Tones[00:00:00]

I was eighteen years old[00:00:14]

When I went down to Dublin[00:00:17]

With a fist full of money[00:00:19]

And a cartload of dreams[00:00:21]

Take your time said my father[00:00:24]

Stop rushing like hell[00:00:27]

And remember all's not[00:00:29]

What it seems to be[00:00:31]

For there's fellas who'd cut you[00:00:34]

For the coat on your back[00:00:37]

Or that watch that you got from your mother[00:00:39]

So take care my young Buck[00:00:43]

And mind yourself well[00:00:45]

Would you give this wee note to my brother[00:00:48]

At the time uncle bendy was a policeman in Brooklyn[00:00:52]

And my father the youngest[00:00:56]

Looked after the farm[00:00:58]

Til a phone call from[00:01:02]

America said send the lad over[00:01:04]

And my old fella said[00:01:06]

Sure wouldn't do any harm[00:01:08]

For I've spent my life working this dirty old ground[00:01:11]

For a few pints of porter[00:01:16]

And the smell of a pound[00:01:18]

Sure maybe there's something[00:01:21]

You'll learn or you'll see[00:01:23]

And you can bring it back home[00:01:25]

Make it easier on me[00:01:27]

So I landed at Kennedy[00:01:33]

And a big yellow taxi[00:01:35]

Carried me and my bags[00:01:37]

Through the streets and the rain[00:01:39]

Well my poor heart was thumping[00:01:42]

Around with excitement[00:01:45]

And I hardly even heard[00:01:47]

What the driver was saying[00:01:49]

We came in the shore parkway[00:01:52]

Through the flat lands in Brooklyn[00:01:55]

To my uncle's apartment on east 53 rd[00:01:57]

I was feeling so happy[00:02:01]

I was humming a song[00:02:03]

And I sang you're as free as a bird[00:02:05]

Well to shorten the story[00:02:08]

What I found out that day[00:02:12]

Was that bendy got shot[00:02:14]

Down in an uptown foray[00:02:16]

And while I was flying my way to new York[00:02:20]

Poor bendy was lying in a cold city morgue[00:02:24]

Well I called up my old fella[00:02:30]

Told him the news[00:02:32]

I could tell he could hardly[00:02:34]

Stand up in his shoes[00:02:36]

And he wept as he told me[00:02:39]

Go ahead with the plan[00:02:41]

And not to forget be a proud Irish man[00:02:43]

So I went up to Nellie's beside ford ham road[00:02:51]

And I started to learn about lifting my load[00:02:55]

But the heaviest thing[00:03:01]

That I carried that year[00:03:02]

Was the bittersweet thoughts of[00:03:05]

My hometown so dear[00:03:07]

I went home that December cause my old fella died[00:03:10]

I had to borrow the money[00:03:15]

From a fella on the side[00:03:17]

And all the bright flowers and brass couldn't hide[00:03:20]

The poor wasted face of my father[00:03:24]

I sold off the old far yard for what it was worth[00:03:28]

And into my bag stuck a handful of earth[00:03:33]

Then I boarded a train and I caught me a plane[00:03:38]

And I found myself back in the u s again[00:03:42]

It's been twenty two years since I set foot in Dublin[00:03:48]

My kids know to use the correct knife and fork[00:03:53]

But I'll never forget the green grass and the rivers[00:03:58]

As I keep law and order in the streets of new York[00:04:02]