I happen to like New York
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I HAPPEN TO LIKE NEW YORK (Cole Porter) performed by Bobby Short
I happen to like New York,
I happen to like this town.
I like the city air, I like to drink of it,
The more I know New York the more I think of it.
I like the sight and the sound and even the stink of it.
I happen to like New York.
I like to go to Battery Park
and watch those liners booming in.
I often ask myself, why should it be
they should come so far across the sea.
I suppose it's because they all agree with me.
They happen to like New York.
On Sunday afternoon
I took a trip across to Hackensack,
But when I gave Hackensack the once over,
I took the next train back.
I happen to like this burg.
I happen to like this town.
And when I have to give the world my last farewell,
And the undertaker starts to ring my funeral bell,
I don't want to go to heaven, don't want to go to hell.
I happen to like New York.
I happen to love New York.