The Streets of New York

A beautiful waltz song from the 1906 operetta “The Red Mill.”
words by Henry Blossom
music by Victor Herbert


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. In dear old New York it’s remarkable very
    The name on the lamppost is unnecessary
    You merely have to see the girls
    To know what street you’re on
    Fifth Avenue beauties and dear old Broadway girls
    The tailor-made shoppers, the Avenue “A” girls
    They’re strictly all right but they’re different quite
    In the different parts of town

Chorus
In old New York, in old New York
The peach crop’s always fine
They’re sweet and fair and on the square
The maids of Manhattan for mine
You cannot see in gay Paree
In London or in Cork
The queens you’ll meet on any street
In old New York

  1. If a spare afternoon you should happen to have
    And you start on a leisurely stroll up Fifth Avenue
    There is where with haughty air
    You’ll see them as they walk
    With velvets and laces and sables enfolding them
    Really you’ll nearly fall dead on beholding them
    Lucky’s the earl that can marry a girl
    From Fifth Avenue New York
  2. Whatever the weather is shining or showery
    That doesn’t “cut any ice” on the Bowery
    Every night till broad daylight
    They dance and sing and talk
    The girls are all game and they’re jolly good fellows
    They’re not very swell but they’re none of them jealous
    They go it alone in a style of their own
    On the Bowery in New York

Sung here by Fred Feild: