I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a cr… Take the Lenox Avenue busses, Taxis, subways,

Let’s go see Old Abe Sitting in the marble and the moon… Sitting lonely in the marble and t… Quiet for ten thousand centuries,… Quiet for a million, million years…

You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!

We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark

When Susanna Jones wears red her face is like an ancient cameo Turned brown by the ages. Come with a blast of trumphets, J… When Susanna Jones wears red

Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt

Goin’ down the road, Lawd, Goin’ down the road. Down the road, Lawd, Way, way down the road. Got to find somebody

I work all day, Said Simple John, Myself a house to buy. I work all day, Said Simple John,

From Christ to Ghandi Appears this truth— St. Francis of Assisi Proves it, too: Goodness becomes grandeur

Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf—Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair says… new Waldorf—Astoria:

Harlem Sent him home in a long box— Too dead To know why: