Forty Twenty Three Twenty Second Street
Now, as for my Who on me
She was always wearing her
Sailing to Greece on the Normandy Having dinner at the table Sitting on the deck with 5 men her With Sam in the back row at home, riding up the Taygetus on a donkey named David With her leather boots dangling off to the side So of pride So of pride.
Elias, so high you can see us 4823 22nd St., there with cashmere overcoats And those with their Arabian silver And ostrich and feather hats And not far down from our Betinis
We've got a secret us Betinis
In the back of the Hawthorne smoke In the basement of the hat The fedoras got together
But in back basement... In that basement, a lot of things got sewn up!
A full of grinchy Italians up on their stubby fingers, and smoking, I'm told The least cigars The local lottery and so Like anybody was to get a nit out of that nut Though what a loser is our five thousand dollars a day friend and koumbaros Betinis got a secret between us, Betinis
In the back of the smoke shop, Haberdashery was the of it In the of the hat factory The fedoras got together
But in back basement... In that back basement, a lot of things got up
We've got a between us, Betinis. thousand dollars a day Five thousand a day Five thousand a day Five dollars a day
In the basement of the hat The got glued together
But in that back In that back basement, a lot of things got up! We've got a secret us, Betinis
Not that nobody knows, like nobody knows about the doves that flew out the cake at the brother's wedding In your hat factory, Betinis, they count up all the nickels And silver certificates wrung from Lake spirits And fight foolery, and sluts speaking easy in the closets on 12th St. And in exchange you put in pants $5,000 a day to stick under your bed for starters But later in the laundry, so you can feel free to chase your wife the table When you she looked at the apricot and boysenberry boy twice