On the banks of the hudson, my love and i lay down just above 42nd street, while the rain was pouring down when i covered her with kisses, the sparks lit up her eyes we made love like mad angels, while the jersey trucks rolled by she said "don't you ever leave me, oh for godsake don't let medown" so i made her all kinds of promises about how i'd always bearound but the speed was rippin' through my head, i'd only one thing onmy mind so goodbye my love on 42nd Street, if i don't get out of here,i'm gonna die
on the banks of the hudson, my love and i lay down just one more midnight left to kill, then i'm outta new yorktown i could feel the ice man closin' in, i could almost smell hisgun but that 20 grand i beat him out of would help me start againback home and she said "don't you ever leave me, oh for godsake don't letme down then i thought about what they'd do to her when they found outi'd left town but the fire was racin' through my brain, i'd only one thing onmy mind so goodbye my love on 42nd street, if i don't get out of here i'mgonna die
don't say i should have stayed with her, you don't know the full story about the girl i only used her just as much as she used me but sometimes you just gotta get out of new york city
on the banks of the hudson, my love and i lay down just above 42nd street, while the rain was pouring down when I covered her with kisses, the sparks lit up her eyes we made love like mad angels, while the jersey trucks rolled by and she said "don't you ever leave me, oh for godsake don't letme down but how could I ever take a black girl back to wexford town just then the streets of fire turned to blood, a yellow cadillaccruised by and as i raced up 42nd street, the ice man shouted "hey paddy, it's time to die"