Verse 1: In dear old New York it's remarkable very!
The name on the lamp post is unnecessary!
You merely have to see the girls
To know what street your on!
Fifth Avenue beauties and dear old Broadway girls!
The tailor made shoppers the Avenue "A" girls,
They're strictly all right but they're different quite,
In the different parts of town.

Chorus: In old New York! In old New York!
The peach crop's always fine!
They're sweet and fair and on the square!
The maids of Manhattan for mine!
You cannot see in gay Paree,
In London or in Cork!
The queens you'll meet on any street
In old New York.

Verse 2: If a spare afternoon you should happen to have and you
Start on a leisurely stroll up Fifth Avenue,
There is where with haughty air
You'll see them as they walk!
With velvets and laces and sables enfolding them,
Really you'll nearly fall dead on beholding them,
Lucky's the earl that can marry a girl
From Fifth Avenue, New York

Chorus: In old New York! In old New York!
The peach crop's always fine!
They're sweet and fair and on the square!
The maids of Manhattan for mine!
You cannot see in gay Paree,
In London or in Cork!
The queens you'll meet on any street
In old New York.

Verse 3: Whatever the weather is shining or showery,
That doesn't "cut any ice" on the Bowery,
Every night till broad daylight,
They dance and sing and talk!
The girls are all game and they're jolly good fellows,
They're not very swell but they're none of them jealous,
They go it alone in a style of their own,
On the Bowery in New York.

Chorus: In old New York! In old New York!
The peach crop's always fine!
They're sweet and fair and on the square!
The maids of Manhattan for mine!
You cannot see in gay Paree,
In London or in Cork!
The queens you'll meet on any street
In old New York.