Brooklyn Bridge
By Bobby Bare
Written by Bobby Bare and Lance Guyness
Album: Detroit City and Other Hits (1963)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
9/18/21
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O'er there I stood in the great big city
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Where the buildings tall and the girls are all pretty
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Up stepped a man, he said, "Come here Son"
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I got a big deal now if you got the mon'
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I bought the Brooklyn Bridge
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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 it
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 thirty dollars or thirty days
And I looked at him and all I could say
Was all that take thirty dollars
Couldn't make that thirty-five could you
Spend all my money on that bridge
Well after ninety days in that man's jail
I'm 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
Spoken:
Terrorizing the pedestrians, whoo, them pigeons
I bet old Skid Row Pete ain't got no pigeons on the Brooklyn Bridge
I bet he can’t trade that bridge off either because the man gonna come take him down
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