(I Wanna Go Back To) The Big Apple

Written for: Manhattan Melody (1980)
Performer: NONE (movie never made)
Lyric: Harry Warren
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1980
Original publisher: Four Jays Music Co., Inc.

Verse (melody only in MIDI):

I'm on my way, I'm taking a trip,
If you really want to know, I'll give you a tip:
I'm going back to the town where I belong;
I'm going back in style,
To old Manhattan Isle,
And, by the way,
I'm going back to stay;

Chorus:

Have you ever been to the Big Apple,
Have you ever been?
It's a wonderful place, the Big Apple,
If you've never been.
From the Battery to Central Park, there are wonderful sights to see,
When the sun goes down and the lights go on, it's a New York Rhapsody.
Where the taxi cabs moan
And the subways groan
In wacky harmony;
Bet a hundred to one,
It's a load of fun
From the Bronx to Avenue "B";
Oh, I wanna go back to the Big Apple, Big Apple, Big Apple,
That's where I want to be.

Interlude:

Where life is just a tussle,
And you really have to hustle
If you wanna keep up with the other guys;
From the river to the bay,
There is nothing in the way
'Cept the buildings that seem to reach the skies.
Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Broadway to Old Times Square;
Then down to Soho where it's oh, so you know "devil may care."
It's hard to believe,
It's make-believe,
It's Babylon by the sea,
Oh, I wanna go back to the Big Apple, Big Apple, Big Apple,
That's where I want to be.