Wait until dawn The streets will be cool and clean again Then it's time to go downstairs, meet the man He'll be sittin' in a limo with a gun in his hand
It's Saturday night on the Lower East Side I'm sittin' here contemplatin' suicide I just got mugged down in Tompkins Square When a skinny-assed junkie
Marchin' down O'Connell Street with the Starry Plough on high There goes the Citizen Army with their fists raised in the sky Leading them is a mighty
One starry night as I lay sleepin' One starry night as I lay in bed Dreamed I heard wagon wheels a'creakin' When I awoke, love, found you had fled I'
wear her scally, oh, so stylish Told her old man she's discoverin' her roots She know the songs and the bands that sing 'em The Murphs, the Mollies, 47
lays plots in London But she won't have my head The candle gutters The smell sweeps me back To the icy fields of Kinsale The bodies burning black Fire
Oh, the lights shone down on Broadway They lit up old Times Square When we waltzed like Fred and Ginger All along the great White Way But you never said
Oh, oh, oh, oh Chuckie said, "I don't know what's goin' on I'm down on my knees and I'm ah uh losin' it Been up and down this New York town Lookin' for
Carlita is waiting down on C & 9th In mantilla and lace and her lover's knife Cries out for revenge, she is silent like a stone Beautiful in her widow
Standing in your hallway, kiss your angel hair Hear your old grandmother recite her immigrant prayer She knew what you had to do, she'd probably kill
And you feel 40 shades of blue And you feel 40 shades of blue And you feel 40 shades of blue
should be home by eleven Oh, me little dears dry up your tears Your parents are too busy makin' money Oh, Mammy dear, we're all mad over here Livin' in America Workin' with the black
Izzy was a tailor down the lower east side The very man to top you off with dignity and pride His mother wanted him to marry a Katz from Houston Street
Open up the door, she's standin' there With the smile in her eyes but the gray in her hair Betrays the fact you strayed far from home With your drinkin
Danny came over to old New York From Bandon town in the county Cork He got a room on the avenue in Woodside Queens And a job off the books doin' demolition
The strobe was pulsin' in the after-hours, the booze was flowin' free When I first saw you across that room on down by Houston Street You were wrapped
[Incomprehensible] Paddy came down to Voodoo City Met a lady on Bourbon Street She was dark, she was beautiful Swept that boy right off his feet Runnin
to my Black Rose Still in love with my Black Rose She's up in heaven now, my Black Rose You won't be makin' love to my Black My Black Rose, he don't
