Posted on 10/31/2017 6:13:52 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Contribute songs, videos, poems, anecdotes, pictures, anything at all that commemorates New York City, the life there both good and bad, high and low brow, the previous attacks (Such as Osama Step Right Up and Kiss My Rosy Irish Arse [composed by one of the firemen of 9/11]). We did it for the country music festival in Vegas. Let's do it for New York, New York. I started it out with Sinatra for a source URL. Please add your own contributions.
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First of all, Prayers Up for family and friends of the latest round of VICTIMS thanks to our dumb@ss Mother Government and her stupid, lax, PC immigration policies.
Secondly, living in a city the size of New York City would be a Hell On Earth for me, but I CAN understand how some people like it.
Lastly, I'll add this sentiment from 9/11:
Funny how the early albums of these artists always seem to be the best.
This video is amazingly cool! It’s a time-lapse that covers 500 years of Manhattan in about a minute as if you were in an elevator from swamp level to the top of the world. The World Trade Center will be on your right - and then it’s not. :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEqCsJmAe6c
I guess when you’re hungry, your inspiration is at its height.
(I’m not really into popular music, but my husband is a great fan, and hates what it’s like today. He often wonders how today’s pop music would be different, if so many of the really unique artists of the 60s-70s hadn’t died early of accidents, drugs, disease, &c.)
It was up at Mike's the other night,
There was really quite a sight,
Gather round, folks, while I give you all the lowdown.
Tables were filled with bloody frails,
Chewing on their fingernails;
They were waiting for the man from Harlem.
Drinks were served six bits a throw,
Things were moving kind of slow,
Everybody's nerves were getting jumpy.
All at once the room was still,
Men forgot all about their bill,
Who should enter but the man from Harlem.
Everybody rolled their eyes,
Women starting heaving sighs,
Someone hollered, Music, lights and gin,
Everybody cleared a space,
They had big, broad smiles on every face,
How they all loved to see the man from Harlem.
When he started in to step
He filled everyone with plenty pep,
He twitched, he squirmed,
It was such a dirty shame.
Everyone was in a daze.
Woman watched him with amaze.
Each one said she'd have the man from Harlem.
He looked over in the corner,
And saw a couple of frails and they sure did look kinda low.
Another cat walked up, and said to the man from Harlem,
"Go over there and see what's the matter with them girls."
And they said, "I'm kinda low."
And he said, "I've got just what you need:
Come on, sisters, light up on these weeds and get high
And forget about everything."
American Tune by Simon and Garfunkle from the Concert in Central Park. Really great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCmgKSUXH18
America from Simon and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park (really great):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFAoWwUwknc
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