A pair of new shoes

With matchin' laces

A permanent box at the Sheepshead races

A porcelain tub with boilin' water

A saturday night with the mayor's daughter

Look at me I'm the king of new york

suddenly i'm respectable

starin' right at ya

Lousy with stature

Nubbin' with all the muckity mucks

I'm blowin' my dough and goin' deluxe

And there I be

Ain't i pretty

It's my city

I'm the king of new york

A courduroy with fitted knickers

A mezzanine seat to see the flickers

Havana cigars that cost a quarter

A editor's desk for the star reperoter

Tip your hat he's the king of new york

(How 'bout that I'm the king of new york)

In nothin' Flat

he'll be coverin'

Brooklyn to Trenton

Our man Denton

Makin' the headline out of a hunch

Protectin' the weak

And payin' for lunch

When i'm at bat

Strong men crumble

Proud yet humble

I'm (he's) the king of new york

Must be either dead or dreamin'

Just look at that pape

With my face beamin'

Tommorow they may wrap fishes in it

But I was star for one whole minute

Startin' now I'm the king of new york

(ain't you heard I'm the king of new york)

holy cow it's amiracle

Pulitzer's cryin'

weasels' he's dyin'

flashpot's are shootin' brightat the sun

I'm one hot falutin' sun-of-a-gun

Don't ask me how

Fortune found me

Fate just crowned me

I'm the king of new york

Look and see

Once a piker

Now a striker

i'm the king of new york

victory

front page story

guts and glory

I'm the king of new york