It was just a normal street

Till it got that off-time beat;

Now it's a place where the swing cats meet,

Fifty-Second Street!



It's an endless whoooh,

Where the torrid trumpets blow,

It's quite a thing when you're feeling low,

Fifty-second Street!



Debutants arrive there and start rockin',

Make it their rendevous,

Though their swing is absolutely shocking,

The mamas ain't blue because the mamas swing, too!



It's a world set apart,

It's where swinging got its start;

It's like the beat of a swingin' heart:

Two blocks from Fifty,

You'll find the lifty

Fifty-Second Street!



It's a world that's set apart,

It's where swinging got its start;

Not ten, twenty, thirty, forty,

Fifty-Second Street!



La-la-oh-oh!