Oh, there I stood in the great big city
Where the buildings're tall
And the girls're all pretty
Up stepped a man he said "Come here son
I got a big deal now if you got the mon"
I bought the Brooklyn Bridge
Two dollars, two cigarettes
And an autograph picture of Elvis
Well, I kept my bridge for a day or so
But then my money was a running low
And I tried to make me a sale
But the man done come and he took me to jail
Said I was crazy
Laughed at me
Told me that a society frowned upon them
Well, then he stood me up in a front of a judge
I stood there a grinning but the judge didn't budge
He said 30 dollars or 30 days
And I looked at him and all I could say
Was I'll that take 30 dollars
Couldn't make that 35 could you
Spend all my money on that bridge
Well, after 90 days in that man's jail
I still trying to make me a sale
Met some cat called Skid Row Pete
So I traded it off for 52nd Street
Big deal
Oh big man of action
A big transaction
I bet the folks back home could never realize
That in a great big town this size
Boy like theirs could own the street
Spend his days just to keeping it neat
Picking up cigarette butts
Wine bottles
Terrorizing the pedestrians
Hoo them pigeons
I bet old Skid Row Pete ain't got no pigeons
On the Brooklyn Bridge