Forty-Second Street

Don Bestor

- words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren



Come and meet those dancing feet

On the avenue I'm taking you to

Forty-Second Street

Hear the beat of dancing feet

It's the song I love the melody of

Forty-Second Street

Little nifties from the fifties, innocent and sweet

Sexy ladies from the eighties, who are indiscreet

They're side by side, they're glorified

Where the underworld can meet the elite

Forty-Second Street



Come and meet those dancing feet

On the avenue I'm taking you to

Forty-Second Street

Hear the beat of dancing feet

It's the song I love the melody of

Forty-Second Street

Little nifties from the fifties, innocent and sweet

Sexy ladies from the eighties, who are indiscreet

They're side by side, they're glorified

Where the underworld can meet the elite

Naughty, bawdy, gawdy, sporty,

Forty-Second Street