Forty Deuce

As I rode down on Main one evening
On down by old Times Square
I met a sporting lady
Sweet Nancy was her name
She said, "Me dearest darling
You're so young and smell so sweet
But you'll age ten years in twenty days
Down on 42nd Street"
She took me upstairs to her room
With cobwebs on the walls
Said, "Lay down there me darling
You and I gonna have a ball"
She kissed me virgin tears away
She sang in her sweet voice
"Fare thee well my 42nd Street
Goodbye my 42's"
In years to come on occasion
To remember sweet Nancy's song
I fell in with bad company
Lived me life all wrong
I did everything forbidden
By Bible, book and creed
Till I had no more virgin tears to shed
Down on 42nd Street
I fell in with two blaggards
Spider Murphy and Jim Black
We terrorized Hell's Kitchen
Robbed both white and black
We never gave a damn about
The narcos or the vice
For the days were short but the nights were long
Down on dear old 42's
One night on 7th Avenue
I was accosted by the law
They said, "We got your number, lad
Your time is getting short
Take our advice, me bucko
Kick the dust up with your heels
And leave your false companions
Down on 42nd Street"
But I was young and stupid
And loyal to a fault
I had a package in me shirt
Delivered to Jim Black
When I handed him his contraband
I was pounced on by two narcs
Spider Murphy had betrayed me
Farewell my 42's
Spent ten years in Sing Sing
Crawling slowly up the walls
With revenge the only motive
That kept me alive at all
Came out of there a different man
Cruel, vicious, but discreet
Bought a gun and went back home
Down on 42nd Street
Followed Spider Murphy
Into a church down by Times Square
I blew into "Sweet Jesus"
While he was kneeling at his prayers
"If you're ever looking for Jim Black
Don't bother trying, ho
'Cause he's forty feet down under
The Hudson's raging flow"
So fare thee well sweet Nancy
Give back me virgin tears
I'm going back to Sing Sing
For five and fifty years
Please hold me like the first time
Sing in your sweet voice
Fare thee well my 42nd Street
Goodbye my 42's
Fare thee well sweet Nancy
I'll never kiss your lovely mouth no more
Fare thee well sweet Nancy
I'll never kiss your lovely breasts no more
Fare thee well 42nd Street
Goodbye my 42's