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