I think the end of the Rhinegold jingle actually went:

It's not bitter, not sweet,
it's a full-flavored treat,
Why not buy extra-dry Rhingold Beer?

Yoo Hoo, it's Yogi Berra's favorite drink! (especially since he owned the company, which we gullible kids didn't know back then.)

Man, all that talk about Freedom Land really jogged my memory of a million drives on the LIE. Do you remember the billboard that they put up while they were building Lefrack City?

"If you lived here, you'd be home by now!"

I think that must have been the original use of that slogan, which really hit home because that was the exact place where the miles-long bumper-to-bumper parking lot began.

And thanks to Rabbi Sol for all his great NYC jingles and his mention of the New York Giants (the Polo Grounds ones). They'll always be my team even if they did move to San Francisco 47 years ago. What I never could forgive however is that their departure turned the Polo Grounds (a virtual shrine) into a stock-car track and then another ugly high-rise project.

"Say Hey, Willie!!!"

So for all the New Yorkers out there I offer this political jingle which might just be the most obscure item on here since it undoubtedly goes back to the 1800's. My father used to sing it when we were little kids in the 40's and probably learned it from his father, who was born in 1865 and was involved in N.Y. politics. It's the Tammany anthem (from Tammany Hall, the New York Democratic Party Machine of the time), and goes like this:

"Hiawatha was an Indian,
So was Navajo.
Big Chief Organ Grinder killed them
many years ago.

Now there is a band of Indians
that will never die.
And when you here them singing
this will be their battle-cry.

Tam-ma-ny, Tam-ma-ny
Big Chief sits in his tee-pee
Cheering braves to vic-to-ry

Tam-ma-ny, Tam-ma-ny
Whomp-um, Stomp-um, Get your Wam-pum
Tam-ma-ny!"

There might have been more verses, but given that I haven't heard or sung it in about 57 years I think I did pretty well. If anybody else out there remembers this or other esoteric NY lore, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Maybe we should start a new thread?