Forty Eight Twenty Three Twenty Street
Now, as for my Who on me
She was wearing her turbans
Sailing back to Greece on the Having dinner at the captain's Sitting on the deck 5 men surrounding her uncle Sam in the back row Back at home, riding up the on a donkey named David With her leather boots dangling off to the side So full of So of pride.
Elias, so high you can see us 4823 22nd St., standing there with cashmere And turbans with their Arabian silver And ostrich and feather hats And not far down from our Betinis
We've got a between us Betinis
In the of the Hawthorne smoke shop In the basement of the hat The fedoras got together
But in back basement... In that back basement, a lot of things got up!
A compliment 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 a lucky loser is our five thousand dollars a day friend and koumbaros Betinis We've got a between us, Betinis
In the of the Hawthorne smoke shop, Haberdashery was the of it In the of the hat factory The fedoras got together
But in back basement... In back basement, a lot of things got sewn up
We've got a between us, Betinis. Five dollars a day thousand dollars a day Five dollars a day Five dollars a day
In the of the hat factory The fedoras got glued
But in that back In back basement, a lot of things got sewn up! We've got a secret between us,
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 up all the buffalo nickels And silver certificates wrung from Lake Superior And prize foolery, and sluts speaking easy in the closets on 12th St. And in exchange you put in your pants $5,000 a day to stick under bed for starters But later in the laundry, so you can feel free to chase your around the table When you feel she at the apricot and boysenberry boy twice