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Lyrics for Lullabye by Joel Billy:
| | | Artist: | Joel Billy |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Lullabye | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 52 | | | | Lyrics: | I've seen the lights go out on Broadway-
I saw the Empire State laid low.
And life went on
beyond the Palisades,
They all bought bright Cadillacs-
And left there long ago.
We held
a concert out in Brooklyn-
To watch the Island bridges blow.
They turned our power
down,
And drove us underground-
But we went right on with the show...
I've seen the
lights go out on Broadway-
I saw the ruins at my feet,
You know we almost didn't notice
it-
We'd see it all the time on Forty-Second Street.
They burned the churches up in
Harlem-
Like in that Spanish Civil War-
The flames were everywhere,
But no one really
cared-
It always burned up there before....
I saw the lights go out on Broadway-
I
watched the mighty skyline fall.
The boats were waiting at the Battery,
The union went on
strike-
They never sailed at all.
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk-
And picked the
Yankees up for free.
They said that Queens could stay,
They blew the Bronx away-
And
sank Manhattan out to sea....
You know those lights were bright on Broadway-
But that was so
many years ago...
Before we all lived here in Florida-
Before the Mafia took over
Mexico.
There are not many who remember-
They say a handful still survive...
To tell the
world about...
The way the lights went out,
And keep the memory alive....
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Eric
Wincentsen
267@ef.gc.maricopa.edu
Glendale Community College,
Glendale, Arizona | | | |
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