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