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