| Catch a taxi to the fountainhead
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| Blinking neon penny arcade
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| A young Caruso on the fire escape
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| Painted face ladies on parade
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| The newsboy on the corner
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| Singing out headlines
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| And a fiddler selling pencils
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| The sign reads: Help the blind
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| Comin' up the lane callin'
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| Workin' while the rain’s fallin'
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| Ragman, your song of the street
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| Keeps haunting my memory
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| Music in the air
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| I hear it ev’rywhere
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| Rags, bones and old city songs
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| Hear them, how they talk to me Trolley car rings out the morning
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| Whistle blows at noon
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| A cat fight breaks open the night
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| While watch dogs bay at the moon
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| A preacher on an orange crate
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| With a Salvation Army Band
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| And clicking along the cobbled stones
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| That’s the sound of the ice-cream man
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| Comin' up the lane callin'
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| Workin' while the rain’s fallin'
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| Ragman, your song of the street
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| Keeps haunting my memory
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| Music in the air
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| I hear it ev’rywhere
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| Rags, bones and old city songs
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| Hear them, how they talk to me The organ grinder and his monkey
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| Still walkin' the same old beat
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| The shoe-shine boy slappin' leather
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| He puts the rhythm in your feet
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| Strollin' by the churchyard
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| List’nin' to the Sunday choir
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| With voices rising to the heavens
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| Like sirens screaming to a fire
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| Comin' up to the lane callin'
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| Workin' while the rain’s fallin'
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| Ragman, your song of the street
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| Keeps haunting my memory
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| Music in the air
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| I hear it ev’rywhere
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| Rags, bones and old city songs
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| Play them one more time for me |