The Sidewalks of New York (1894)

Описание: A waltz song and chorus that identifies the big apple.

Lyrics:

1. Down in front of Casey's
Old brown wooden stoop
On a summer's evening
We formed a merry group
Boys and girls together
We would sing and waltz
While the "Ginnie" played the organ
On the sidewalks of New York

Chorus:
East side, west side, all around the town
The tots sang "ring a rosie"
"London Bridge is falling down"
Boys and girls together
Me and Mamie Rorke
Tripped the light fantastic
On the sidewalks of New York

2. That's where Johnny Casey
And little Jimmy Crowe
With Jakey Krause the baker
Who always had the dough
Pretty Nellie Shannon
With a dude as light as cork
First picked up the waltz step
On the sidewalks of New York

3. Things have changed since those times
Some are up in "G"
Others they are on the hog
But they all feel just like me
They would part with all they've got
Could they but once more walk
With their best girl and have a twirl
On the sidewalks of New York

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words and music by Chas. B. Lawlor and James W. Blake
published by Howley Haviland & Co.

A small-time vaudevillian, Charles Lawlor had often watched children dancing on the sidewalks. He met up with James Blake, another vaudevillian, in a hat store. On Blake's block when he was a kid, everyone was Irish. They developed these lyrics that provide an idealized view of NYC neighborhoods in the 1890s. They were paid $5000 for the song by a publisher. Lawlor died penniless in 1925. Blake went blind, was penniless and performing in obscurity by 1934. He died in 1935. There is a companion song called The Streets of the Crowded City.

sung by sheet music singer, Fred Feild
piano according to the sheet music

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