WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Bobby Bare - Brooklyn Bridge Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Oh, there I stood in the great big city
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Where the buildings're tall and the girls're 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
[Verse 2]
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Well, I kept my bridge for a day or so
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But then my money was a runnin' low
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And I tried to make me a sale
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But the man done come and he took me to jail
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Said I's crazy, laughed at
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Told me that a society frowned upon them
[Verse 3]
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Well, then he stood me up in a front of a judge
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I stood there a grinnin' but the judge didn't budge
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He said 30 dollars or 30 days
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And I looked at him and all I could say
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Was all that take 30 dollars, couldn't make that 35 could you
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Spend all my money on that bridge
[Verse 4]
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Well, after 90 days in that man's jail
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I still tryin' to make me a sale
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Met some cat called Skid Row Pete
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So I traded it off for 52nd Street
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Big deal, oh big man of action
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A big transaction
[Verse 5]
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I bet the folks back home could never realize
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That in a great big town this size
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Boy like theirs could own the street
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Spend his days just to keepin' it neat
[Outro]
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Pickin' up cigarette butts, wine bottles
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Terrorizing the pedestrians, hoo them pigeons
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I bet old Skid Row Pete ain't got no pigeons
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On the Brooklyn Bridge...
