This song was mentioned by Max Reiner on 14 Jun 2012:


I HAPPEN TO LIKE NEW YORK
Written by Cole Porter for the musical "New Yorkers," 1930.
As recorded by Bolcom and Morris on "Night and Day: The Cole Porter Album" 1991.

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
That they should come so far from across the sea.
I suppose it's because they all agree with me:
They happen to like New York.

Last Sunday afternoon,
I took a trip to Hackensack,
But after I gave Hackensack the once-over,
I took the next train back.

I happen to like New York.
I happen to love this burg,
And when I have to give the world a last farewell,
And the undertaker starts to ring my fun'ral bell,
I don't want to go heaven, don't want to go to hell.
I happen to like New York.
I happen to like New York.