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
- 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
- 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 - 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: