[00:10.07]Ramblin' outa the wild west
[00:11.91]Leavin' the towns i love the best
[00:14.96]Thought i'd seen some ups and down
[00:16.63]"til i come into new york town
[00:20.11]People goin' down to the ground
[00:23.19]Buildings goin' up to the sky.
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[00:32.18]Wintertime in new york town
[00:33.99]The wind blowin' snow around
[00:36.91]Walk around with nowhere to go,
[00:37.97]Somebody could freeze right to the bone
[00:40.95]I froze right to the bone
[00:45.06]New york times said it was the coldest winter in seventeen years;
[00:50.19]I didn't feel so cold then
[00:51.37]
[00:58.88]I swung on to my old guitar
[01:00.98]Grabbed hold of a subway car
[01:03.22]And after a rocking, reeling, rolling ride,
[01:04.92]I landed up on the downtown side
[01:09.02]Greenwich village
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[01:22.00]I walked down there and ended up
[01:23.97]In one of them coffee-houses on the block.
[01:25.98]Got on the stage to sing and play,
[01:26.84]Man there said, "come back some other day
[01:30.00]You sound like a hillbilly;
[01:34.64]We want folk singer here
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[01:48.28]Well, i got a harmonica job, begun to play
[01:49.94]Blowin' my lungs out for a dollar a day.
[01:51.81]I blowed inside out and upside down.
[01:52.61]The man there said he loved m' sound,
[01:56.64]He was ravin' about how he loved m' sound
[02:00.70]Dollar a day's worth
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[02:10.78]And after weeks and weeks of hangin' around
[02:11.89]I finally got a job in new york town,
[02:14.73]In a bigger place, bigger money too,
[02:16.75]Even joined the union and paid m' dues
[02:20.78]Now, a very great man once said
[02:22.82]That some people rob you with a fountain pen
[02:24.91]It don't take too long to find out
[02:26.77]Just what he was talkin' about
[02:30.83]A lot of people don't have much food on their table,
[02:34.83]But they got a lot of forks n' knives
[02:38.79]And they gotta cut somethin'
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[02:47.79]So one mornin' when the sun was warm
[02:49.80]I rambled out of new york town.
[02:51.82]Pulled my cap down over my eyes
[02:53.04]And headed out for the western skies
[02:57.60]So long, new york
[03:03.27]Howdy, east orange
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