Lyrics/Music Mack Gordon/Harry Warren



We've been to London's Piccadilly

When it was time for tea

We walked along the Champs Elyseé

The pride of gay Paree

You can rave about your Broadway and Times Square

Come on along and let me show you the grandest thoroughfare



Hop a bus, take a car

Hail a cab and there you are

On Fifth Avenue (old Fifth Avenue)

Ev'ry Joe, ev'ry Jane

Walks along that dreamer's lane

On Fifth Avenue (that's Fifth Avenue)

Where they stop, window shop, and their hopes are so high

Pricing rings, pretty things that they can't afford to buy

But they smile, they don't care

Ev'ryone's a millionaire

When you're strolling on Fifth Avenue



Easter bonnets bright and gay

New York's finest on Saint Patrick's Day

Flags are flying, see them wave

Soldiers marching in mem'ry of the brave



There are shouts, there are cheers

Mingled with a mother's tears

On Fifth Avenue (old Fifth Avenue)

All the world's on parade

Where the fashions are made

On Fifth Avenue (that's Fifth Avenue)

Fancy shops, small cafés, a cathedral and then

Central Park, Cartier's, and a Woolworth's five and ten

What a street, what a thrill

Say, you haven't lived until

You've been strolling on Fifth Avenue

You've been strolling on Fifth Avenue