All Stories We don’t hire Jews I’ve got a house full of harmonicas I’ve been there Get out and do something The most wonderful time for me… New York, New York Life is strung together by great moments I was very close to the children Just keep going You’ll soon be your father’s I like the “D” My first record was Lonely Boy I just lost him too early I never tell my age Everything in the street I felt like a Goddess in it It’s a true story We boosted our draft It was a great experience It was like a different world I was the French Marilyn Monroe Archie & Edith Bunker We value each other Jobs were scarce I worked in the Catskills Tall dark and handsome I was born in Brooklyn We’re all getting older From the shoulders up I’m 25 I stood the other guy up I was very mischievous I’m satisfied Dad was right I had a lot of friends on the block We had babies quick We’ll both go at the same time Wo-Chi-Ca My wedding was tremendous They spoke Yiddish or English Everybody wore hats in those days In the 40s New York was wide open You waited a long time to see him This is the world I think I was once this age The orphanage wasn’t a picnic I have two sons My wife was my first love I Could Have Danced All Night I came here to get married Fortune Cookie Poem Without The Center I wanted to be a ball player Cycles Living with my religious children You gotta get out in the dating game My son looked like an owl It was a horror If we got a nickel Being poor was pretty awful In 1939 the war started American Dream I thank G-D for letting me live this long It’s your choice We lived in a slum They were quality I love my years G-d has blessed me with my son They haven’t heard of Ocean Hill We were against all these bourgeios institutions After 50 we all shrink G-d and I talk Gunky Lung Happy every day Life, you do what you have to do That was the beginning We liberated one of The Camps Barbara Streisand graduated from High School with me You went on The time went so fast I was held back It gives me a high I was born on the table How come you’re not married? Every nationality lived there I felt suffocated I guess I was an expert He kidnapped me I want to look good and feel good You learn every day I was born in the streets He stayed I was the first woman hired I like myself They said she had a Jewish accent My father was my role model My children are Orthodox My father was an illegal immigrant Brooklyn was better 80% Nerve and 20% Talent Could it have been worse? I’ve been a nurse since 1987 I went out to shine shoes You have to be lucky It was actually Crown Heights My mother married, she was 13 I was born in between two boys I’m a married man When you raise a kid you’re too crazy You’re an owner of the Yankees! That’s the guy I’m gonna marry I had a wonderful mother in law You wanna know about me? I was always the secretarial type I saw combat I can’t eat Thank God we had a bathroom! Getting to Know You Light Breaks I don’t feel old I feel connected No phonies in our family We were evacuated Chinese New Year I’m in pretty good shape Words We were married 46 years Girlfriends in Korea A lot of love in the house You made pennies Go find that today Demitasse of the morning I don’t know
