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Tongo
03:42
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Tongo!
Jim diddy mah ee mah ee oh
Tongo!
Oop diddy oop diddy kumbaya
Ooo ah nay
Mali pow maloo way
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Vinegar Hill
02:53
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When the sun goes down
O’er the west side of town
Where you goin to?
Come and watch with me
It’s a sight to see
From the greatest view!
It’s a trip cross the bridge
To the other ridge
Follow me
If you will
To the new place
That I like to be
On Vinegar Hill
Here’s an old hospital
They turned
Into a studio
We make music there
Paint some pictures too
And video
Now go up on the roof
And I’ll show you the proof
Hand in hand
Standing still
You can see lots of things
From this spot
on Vinegar Hill
Chelsea has the High Line
And the Brooklyn Bridge turned their piers into parks
Repurposing is the new thing
If you don’t believe me
Then you don’t belong here
Hey now
You just gotta go
East of DUMBO
I’ll be waiting there till
Till it’s closing time here at the studio
On Vinegar Hill
Chelsea has the High Line
And the Brooklyn Bridge turned their piers into parks
New York’s the greatest in the world
And if you don’t believe me
Then get up and get over now
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Peppermint Room
02:16
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I saw her dancing there up in the Peppermint Room
Dressed in a black and white checkered costume
I moseyed up to her and asked to learn how to dance
She held me in her arms and put me in her trance.
It goes
One and two and three and four
And how do you do
One and two and three and four
And run around Sue
And then
Five and six and seven eight
Bring it on down
Nine ten ‘leven twelve
All over town
It’s right up there with boogaloo and the cha-cha-cha
Felt like flamenco, ole and huzzah
I asked is this a square dance, you know do si do?
She took me in her arms and she said “I don’t know!”
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Rooftop Shower/Raining
08:26
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This is the last straw, she’s doing it again
She beat me to the bathroom, I’m stinking up the den
It’s drizzling outside, it’s been since half past four
If mah plan works, then I don’t have to suffer through this anymore
I’ll grab my shampoo, I’ll grab my brush
Put on my swimsuit so the others won’t see much
Running up the stairs, running out the door
I’m gonna do something that no one’s done before
Rooftop shower
Out there in the rain
Up on top, wash me go insane
No one to see me from below
No one up in the sky
Cause they don’t have a reason why
Come find me, you’ll see
The water may be cold but it doesn’t bother me
The experience up here is better don’t you know?
Listen to the laments of the people down below
It's raining
It's raining
The birds have flown away
It's raining
It's raining
Back home I want to stay
A maiden in the sky above
Does not like her job because
She has to protect people from the pain
She resents her place in the sky
Gets back at her boss and makes the clouds cry
Drowning the citizens in rain
In rain
It's raining
It's raining
How we wish the clouds would dry
It's raining
It's raining
And if we drown we die
The rain has flooded homes and stores
The water's leaking through cracks of doors
and leaving people standing there alone
Now everyone must ride in boats
The town has become castle moats
And the rest of us must sit around and moan
And moan.
Not me cause I’m taking a
Rooftop shower
Fun and fancy free
I look down and no one looks at me
This is the last place where
Anyone would look
It’s the oldest trick in the book!
Come up here and see
The water may be cold but it doesn’t bother me
Nobody can see us, not even from the 7 train
Soapy water down the gutter makes a perfect makeshift drain
This is amazing, check out the view
Should’ve done this sooner, doing it now, it’s new
The rain is never over, it’s not me to decide
The only way to dry off is when I finally come inside
I’m taking a rooftop shower
Getting warmer by the hour
No waste of water isn’t that nice
My hair smelling like sugary spice
I wish that sun above
Would never shine
And afterwards we’ll head down for cherry wine
Down with clothes-ies
Just our toe-sies
And everything in between
Wet your hair and
Jump right on our
Rooftop shower song
Sing along
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5. |
Hello Angela
01:29
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Hello Angela
Long time no see
How’s your life at the
University
What are your classes
Are they something I’d take too?
I remember the last time
I have fallen in love with you.
Hello Angela
When are you free
Wanna go out for some
Bubble tea with me
What’s that you say?
You switched your preference to beer?
I knew the first minute
You were gonna like it here.
Third verse
Same as the first
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Twas a dark stormy night, as the train rattled on,
All the passengers had gone to bed,
Except one young man with a baby in his arms
Sat there with a bowed-down head.
The innocent one began crying just then,
As though its poor heart would break.
One angry man said, Make that child stop its noise,
For it’s keeping all of us awake.
Put it out, said another, don’t keep it in here
We’ve paid for this ride and want rest
But never a word said the man with the child
And fondled it close to his chest
Now where is its mother? Go bring it to her
a maiden then softly said
I wish I could was the man’s sad reply
But she’s dead in the next one ahead
While the train rolled onwards the husband sat in tears
Thinking of the happiness of just a few short years
Baby's face brings pictures of a cherished one that's dead
The baby's crying cannot waken her in the baggage coach ahead
Every eye filled with tears when his story was told
Of a wife who was faithful and true
He told how he’d saved up his earnings for years
Just to build them a home for two
How when Heaven had sent them that sweet little babe
Their young happy lives were blessed
His heart seemed to break when he mentioned her name
And in tears tried to tell them the rest
Every woman arose to assist with the child
There were mothers and wives on the train
And soon was the little one sleeping in peace
With no thought of sorrow or pain
They arrived at the station he said his goodbyes
God bless you he softly said
Each one had a story to tell in their homes
Of the baggage coach ahead
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Only forty-five minutes from Broadway
Think of the changes it brings
For the short time it takes
What a difference it makes
In the ways of the people and things
Oh, what a fine bunch of bluebirds
Oh, what a gay atmosphere
They have whiskers like hay
And imagine Broadway
Only forty-five minutes from here
Only forty-five minutes from Broadway
Not a cafe in the town
Oh the place is a bird, no one here ever heard
Of Delmonico, Rector, or Browne
With a ten dollar bill you're a spendthrift
If you open a bottle of beer
You're a sport so they say, and imagine Broadway
Forty-five minutes
My mother's name was Mary
She was so good and true
Because her name was Mary
She called me Mary, too
She wasn't gay or airy
But plain as she could be
I hate to meet a Mary
Who calls herself "Marie"
For it is Mary, Mary
Plain as any name can be
But with propriety, society will say "Marie"
But it was Mary, Mary
Long before the fashions came
And there is something there that sounds so square
It's a grand old name
It's awfully nice of all of you to see me to the train (So long, Mary)
I didn't think you'd care if you should ne'er see me again (You're wrong, Mary)
This reminds me of my family,
On the day I left Schenectady.
To the station then they came with me
I seem to hear them say
So long, Mary
Mary, we will miss you so
So long, Mary
How we hate to see you go
We'll all be longing for you
While you roam
So long
Don't forget to come back home
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9. |
Parkway
02:30
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Eddie, Veronica
Valerie and Fay
All sortsa parties
On the very same day
Gotta get to all of them
Then we’re homeward bound
Down the parkway, parkway
All across the town
Turn off to the
Exit up ahead
Stay for two minutes then
On the road again
Look at the map now
For where to go to next
As soon as it’s over
We gotta go and rest
Up, down, over, around
Twisting and turning through the trees abound
Keep right, stay in line
Hoping we can make there on time
ETA is
Somewhere half past five
Here comes another gig
On the other side
Almost there
But a tire got a flat
Tell Louis and Clark
They gotta pay for that
Worst tour ever
Things have gone askew
Second time this month
What ya gonna do?
Like a sled of dogs somebody’s gotta mush
This the last time we agree to do one-day rush
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The Plastic E-Gulls New York, New York
A (virtual) East End-based garage band consisting of three childhood friends and a clone, they now live in the heart of Long
Island City, a short train ride away from the Big Apple.
Ian Furelli (guitar)
Tina Furelli (bass)
Ellen Blinstone (keyboard)
Brian O'Feeny (drums)
Created by Thomas Fay
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