Downtown
Where the folks are broke.
Downtown
Where your life’s a joke.
Downtown
When you buy your token,
you go
Home to skid row.
Well the south side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man name of Leroy Brown
My daddy was a cop
On the east side of Chicago
Back in the USA
Back in the bad old days
Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground
Well, one and one is two
Six and two is eight
Come on baby don’t ya make me late
Hidehey
Baby don’t you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago
At the door there’s a man who will greet you.
Then you go downstairs to some tables and chairs.
Soon, I’m sure, you’ll be tapping your feet
because the beat is the greatest there.
All around there are girls and boys.
It’s a swingin’ place,
This side of Illinois*!
It’s got an atmosphere of its own somehow.
You gotta come along right now!
'Cause I tell you
*Yes, I know now that the lyric is “a cellar full of noise.” But I sang it with that lyric for about 30 years!
Well we got no choice
All the girls and boys
Makin all that noise
'Cause they found new toys
Well we can’t salute ya
Can’t find a flag
If that don’t suit ya
That’s a drag
So you’ve had a little trouble in town
Now you’re keeping some demons down
Stop draggin’ my
Stop draggin’ my
Stop draggin’ my heart around
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
Well I’m not dumb but I can’t understand
Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man
Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola
I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah
Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda
S O D A, soda
I saw the little runt sitting there on a log
I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said “Yoda”
Y O D A, Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo-Yoda
He knows everything about wrong and right.
You can become a Jedi knight.
I go to learn from the Y.O.D.A.!
I go to learn from the Y.O.D.A.!
They have everything for you men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys…
It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It’s fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
In the Matrix, yes, you can look just how you please
In the Matrix, yes, we can jump around like fleas
In the Matrix, check out my funky new Ray-Bans
In the Matrix, lend the Zionists a hand
In the Matrix, learn kung-fu, kara-te and then
In the Matrix, just plant a bomb and count to ten
In the Matrix, and you be sure to run like hell!
In the Matrix, In the Matrix
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
You better run all day and run all night
And keep your dirty feelings deep inside
And if you’re takin’ your girlfriend out tonight
You better park the car well out of sight
'Cos if they catch you in the back seat trying to pick her locks
They’re gonna send you back to mother in a cardboard box
You better run
Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don’t hesitate,
Send 'em off before it’s too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.
When I landed in 'Nam I was great Uncle Sam
I was fighting for God and my mother.
And I knew what to do when my first tour was through,
I signed up and went back for another.
But it all tumbled down when we ambushed the town,
In the night how the metal was flying.
We blew it to hell. Really did our job well,
But just women and kids did the dying
Could this be magic, or could this be love?
Could this turn tragic? You know that magic often does
And I see lonely ships upon the water
Better save the women and children first
Sail away with someone’s daughter
Better save the women and children first
Take each other for granted
It’s only love, we tell ourselves
It’s only emotion
Untamed as any ocean.
With the wind at our backs
And time on our side
Breakers crashing on rocks
We assume that we’ll survive.
Watching the ship go down in the water
Watching the ship go down in the sea
Watching the ship go down in the water
Carrying you and carrying me
I’m sailing away set an open course for the virgin sea
I’ve got to be free free to face the life that’s ahead of me
On board I’m the captain so climb aboard
We’ll search for tomorrow on every shore
And I’ll try oh Lord I’ll try to carry on