#1004 - The Bowery

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• Composer:
  • Percy Gaunt

    • #1004 - The Bowery
    • #2023 - The Bowery, Waltz
    • #2031 - Push Dem Clouds Away

    (1854-1896), 1891
  • popularized in the musical A Trip to Chinatown

    • #600 - After the Ball
    • #1004 - The Bowery
    • #1059 - Only One Girl in the World for Me
    • #1061 - The Sunshine of Paradise Alley
    • #2016 - After the Ball, Waltz Song
    • #2023 - The Bowery, Waltz
    • #2031 - Push Dem Clouds Away
    • #2080 - 1. Mrs. Flarity, What do You Mean by That? / 2. Do, Do, My Huckleberry
    • #2132 - Only One Girl in the World for Me
    • #2134 - 1. My Best Girl's a New Yorker / 2. The Sunshine of Paradise Alley

    , 1891
• MIDI | show
  
• Incipit: 33343215575567111
• Condensed Incipit: 34321575671
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• Lyrics:
  Oh! The night that I struck New York
  I went out for a quiet walk
  Folks who are “on to” the city say
  Better by far that I took Broadway
  But I was out to enjoy the sights
  There was the Bow'ry ablaze with lights
  I had one of the devil's own nights
  I'll never go there any more.
  
  chorus:
  The Bow'ry, the Bow'ry
  They say such things and they do strange things,
  On the Bow'ry! The Bow'ry!
  I'll never go there any more.
  
  I had walked but a block or two,
  When up came a fellow and me he knew
  Then a policeman came walking by
  Chased him away and I asked him, “Why?”
  “Wasn't he pulling your leg?” said he,
  Said I, “He never laid hands on me!”
  “Get off the Bow'ry, you fool,” said he
  I'll never go there any more.
  
  Struck a place that they called a “dive”
  I was in luck to get out alive
  When the policeman heard my woes,
  Saw my black eyes and my battered nose.
  “You've been held up!” said the “copper” fly,
  “No, sir! But I've been knocked down!” said I
  Then he laughed, tho' I couldn't see why
  I'll never go there any more.
  
  
  
  • Charles H. Hoyt

    • #1004 - The Bowery
    • #2023 - The Bowery, Waltz

    (1859-1900), 1891
• See also:
  • #2023 - The Bowery, Waltz