RIVERS OF NEW YORK CITY
Tune: Rivers of Texas (traditional)
New words by Stephen L. Suffet ©2005

We crossed the Bronx River, we forded the Harlem,
We swam the East River, we followed the Flushing,
Arthur Kill is all smelly, just like stale beer,
But it's down by the Hudson I courted my dear.

Chorus:
Oy-oy-oy-oy-oy, don't be a jerk,
Oy-oy-oy-oy-oy, don't be a jerk,
Oy-oy-oy-oy-oy, don't be a jerk,
There's many a river that waters New York.

The Hutchinson River floods the parkway in spring,
Above Newtown Creek the bridges do swing,
Richmond Creek clogs with leaves in the fall,
And the Kill Van Kull ain't no river at all.

[Repeat chorus.]

Trade Center wreckage lines the banks of the Fresh Kills,
Alongside the mountains that used to be landfills,
Marine Park Creek runs to the sea shore,
But I'll never walk down by the Hudson no more.

[Repeat chorus.]

She hugged me and kissed me and called me her dandy,
Coney Island Creek is muddy, and Spring Creek is sandy,
I hugged her and kissed her and called her my own,
But down by the Hudson she left me alone.

[Repeat chorus.]