A pair of new shoes with matching laces

A permanent box at the sheepshead races

A porcelain tub with boiling water

A Saturday night with the mayors daughter



Look at me I'm the king of New York

Suddenly I'm respectable starin right at ya

Lousy with stature



Nobbin with all the muckety mucks

I'm blowin my dough and going deluxe then

there I be ain't I pretty

it's my city

I'm the King of New York



A corduroy suit with fitted knickers

A mezzanine seat to see the flickers

Havana cigars that cost a quarter

an editors desk for the star reporter



tip your hat hes the king of new york (how bout that i'm the king of new york)

in nothing flat he'll be covering

Brooklyn to Trenton

our man Denton



making the headline out of hunch



protecting the weak



and paying for lunch



when i'm at bat

strong men crumble



proud yet humble

I'm the King of New York(He's the King of New York)



Gotta be either dead or dreamin

just look at that pape with my face beamin

tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it

but I was a star for one whole minute.



Starting now, I'm the king of New York

Ain't ya heard I'm the King of New York

Holy Cow!

It's a miracle

Pulitzer's cryin, Weasel he's dying



Flashpots are shooting bright as the sun

I'm one high falutin son of a gun

don't ask me how fortune found me

fate just crowned me

Now I'm king of New York!

Look and see

once a piker now a striker

I'm the King of New York!

Victory front page story

guts and glory

I'm the King of New York