Fifth Avenue

Written for: Young People (1940)
Performer: Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood & Shirley Temple
Lyric: Mack Gordon
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1940
Original publisher: Twentieth Century Music Corporation, rights controlled by Robbins Music Corporation

Verse:

We've been to London's Piccadilly
When it was time for tea;
We walked along the Champs Elyseé,
The pride of gay Paree;
You can rave about your Broadway and Times Square,
Come on along and let me show you the grandest thoroughfare.

Chorus 1:

Hop a bus, take a car, 
Hail a cab and there you are,
On Fifth Avenue (old Fifth Avenue).
Ev'ry Joe, ev'ry Jane
Walks along that dreamer's lane,
On Fifth Avenue (that's Fifth Avenue).
Where they stop, window shop, and their hopes are so high,
Pricing rings, pretty things that they can't afford to buy;
But they smile, they don't care,
Ev'ryone's a millionaire
When you're strolling on Fifth Avenue.

Interlude:

Easter bonnets smart and gay,
New York's finest on Saint Patrick's Day;
Flags are flying, see them wave,
Soldiers marching in mem'ry of the brave.

Chorus 2:

There are shouts, there are cheers
Mingled with a mother's tears,
On Fifth Avenue (old Fifth Avenue).
All the world's on parade
Where the fashions are made,
On Fifth Avenue (that's Fifth Avenue).
Fancy shops, small cafés, a cathedral and then,
Central Park, Cartier's, and a Woolworth's five and ten.
What a street, what a thrill,
Say, you haven't lived until
You've been strolling on Fifth Avenue,
You've been strolling on Fifth Avenue.