Brooklyn Bridge — текст песни (Bobby Bare)

(Bobby Bare - Lance Guyness)

Oh, there I stood in the great big city
Where the buildings`re 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
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 a 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
Told me that a society frowned upon them.
Well, then he stood me up in a front of a judge
I stood there a 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 all that take 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, hoo them pigeons
I bet old Skid Row Pete ain`t got no pigeons
On the Brooklyn Bridge...