Brooklyn Bridge
Oh, there I stood in the great big city
Where the buildings tall and the girls're all pretty
Up stepped a man he said, "Come here, son
I got a big deal now if you got the mon'"
I bought the Brooklyn Bridge
With two dollars, two cigarettes and an autograph picture of Elvis
Well, I kept my bridge for a day or so
But then my money was runnin' low
And I tried to make me a sale
But the man done come and he took me to jail
Said I's crazy, laughed at me
Told me that society frowned upon it
Well, then he stood me up in a front of a judge
I stood there grinnin' but the judge didn't budge
He said 30 dollars or 30 days
And I looked at him and all I could say
Was, "I'd take that 30 dollars, couldn't make that 35, could you?
Spend all my money on that bridge"
Well, after 90 days in that man's jail
I still tryin' to make me a sale
Met some cat called Skid Row Pete
So I traded it off for 52nd Street
Big deal, oh big man of action
A big transaction
I bet the folks back home could never realize
That in a great big town this size
Boy like theirs could own the street
Spend his days just to keepin' it neat
Pickin' up cigarette butts, wine bottles
Terrorizing the pedestrians, shoo them pigeons
I bet old Skid Row Pete ain't got no pigeons
On that Brooklyn Bridge
And I bet he can't trade that bridge off either
Because a man gonna come take him down
Ain't that bad?
Where the buildings tall and the girls're all pretty
Up stepped a man he said, "Come here, son
I got a big deal now if you got the mon'"
I bought the Brooklyn Bridge
With two dollars, two cigarettes and an autograph picture of Elvis
Well, I kept my bridge for a day or so
But then my money was runnin' low
And I tried to make me a sale
But the man done come and he took me to jail
Said I's crazy, laughed at me
Told me that society frowned upon it
Well, then he stood me up in a front of a judge
I stood there grinnin' but the judge didn't budge
He said 30 dollars or 30 days
And I looked at him and all I could say
Was, "I'd take that 30 dollars, couldn't make that 35, could you?
Spend all my money on that bridge"
Well, after 90 days in that man's jail
I still tryin' to make me a sale
Met some cat called Skid Row Pete
So I traded it off for 52nd Street
Big deal, oh big man of action
A big transaction
I bet the folks back home could never realize
That in a great big town this size
Boy like theirs could own the street
Spend his days just to keepin' it neat
Pickin' up cigarette butts, wine bottles
Terrorizing the pedestrians, shoo them pigeons
I bet old Skid Row Pete ain't got no pigeons
On that Brooklyn Bridge
And I bet he can't trade that bridge off either
Because a man gonna come take him down
Ain't that bad?
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Writer(s): Bobby Bare, Lance Guynes
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