Brooklyn Bridge

Oh, there I stood in the great big city Where the buildings tall and the girls're all pretty Up stepped a man he said, "Come here, son I got a big deal now if you got the mon'" I bought the Brooklyn Bridge With two dollars, two cigarettes and an autograph picture of Elvis Well, I kept my bridge for a day or so But then my money was runnin' low And I tried to make me a sale But the man done come and he took me to jail Said I's crazy, laughed at me Told me that society frowned upon it Well, then he stood me up in a front of a judge I stood there grinnin' but the judge didn't budge He said 30 dollars or 30 days And I looked at him and all I could say Was, "I'd take that 30 dollars, couldn't make that 35, could you? Spend all my money on that bridge" Well, after 90 days in that man's jail I still tryin' to make me a sale Met some cat called Skid Row Pete So I traded it off for 52nd Street Big deal, oh big man of action A big transaction I bet the folks back home could never realize That in a great big town this size Boy like theirs could own the street Spend his days just to keepin' it neat Pickin' up cigarette butts, wine bottles Terrorizing the pedestrians, shoo them pigeons I bet old Skid Row Pete ain't got no pigeons On that Brooklyn Bridge And I bet he can't trade that bridge off either Because a man gonna come take him down Ain't that bad?