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