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I’m a married man

I like myself

Everything in the street

We were married 46 years

After 50 we all shrink

From the shoulders up I’m 25

A lot of love in the house

Living with my religious children

The time went so fast

My wedding was tremendous

That’s the guy I’m gonna marry

You gotta get out in the dating game

That was the beginning

Archie & Edith Bunker

I want to look good and feel good

G-d and I talk

They said she had a Jewish accent

I can’t eat

Chinese New Year

My children are Orthodox

My son looked like an owl

I’m satisfied

Brooklyn was better

We lived in a slum

I guess I was an expert

My first record was Lonely Boy

It’s a true story

Fortune Cookie Poem

In the 40s New York was wide open

My wife was my first love

I’m in pretty good shape

I had a wonderful mother in law

You’re an owner of the Yankees!

You went on

We boosted our draft

We liberated one of The Camps

I worked in the Catskills

I was very close to the children

G-d has blessed me with my son

I was once this age

I went out to shine shoes

I wanted to be a ball player

No phonies in our family

I just lost him too early

You have to be lucky

I felt suffocated

Jobs were scarce

When you raise a kid you’re too crazy

They spoke Yiddish or English

We were evacuated

How come you’re not married?

You wanna know about me?

My mother married, she was 13

I was born on the table

I was always the secretarial type

You waited a long time to see him

I feel connected

We had babies quick

It gives me a high

Could it have been worse?

We value each other

Being poor was pretty awful

Demitasse of the morning

I thank G-D for letting me live this long

Thank God we had a bathroom!

I was born in between two boys

I don’t know

Barbara Streisand graduated from High School with me

Tall dark and handsome

80% Nerve and 20% Talent

Without The Center

They were quality

I came here to get married

They haven’t heard of Ocean Hill

Just keep going

My father was an illegal immigrant

It was a horror

Girlfriends in Korea

It’s your choice

Cycles

The orphanage wasn’t a picnic

Get out and do something

It was like a different world

In 1939 the war started

I have two sons

I was held back

American Dream

You learn every day

We’ll both go at the same time

He stayed

We’re all getting older

Life is strung together by great moments

Everybody wore hats in those days

You made pennies

I’ve been a nurse since 1987

I saw combat

You’ll soon be your father’s

Light Breaks

I felt like a Goddess in it

It was actually Crown Heights

Go find that today

I stood the other guy up

If we got a nickel

He kidnapped me

I never tell my age

Dad was right

I was the French Marilyn Monroe

I was born in the streets

Every nationality lived there

I had a lot of friends on the block

Wo-Chi-Ca

This is the world I think

I was the first woman hired

I was very mischievous

I love my years

Gunky Lung

Getting to Know You

Happy every day

We were against all these bourgeios institutions

Life, you do what you have to do

I was born in Brooklyn

I like the “D”

The most wonderful time for me…

I’ve been there

I Could Have Danced All Night

It was a great experience

New York, New York

Words

I don’t feel old

My father was my role model

I’ve got a house full of harmonicas

We don’t hire Jews

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