Cole Porter — Please Dont Monkey With Broadway

(Verse) [JOHNNY AND KING] Due to landscape gardeners gifted Knickerbocker spaces are being lifted So much That you hardly know it as such All the streets are being dressed up So before they ruin Broadway, I suggest that You go To the city fathers and say, "Whoa!" (Chorus) [JOHNNY] Glorify Sixth Avenue [KING] And put bathrooms in the zoo [JOHNNY AND KING] But please don't monkey with Broadway [KING] Put big floodlights in the park [JOHNNY] And put Harlem in the dark [JOHNNY AND KING] But please don't monkey with Broadway Though it's tawdry and plain It's a lovely old lane Full of landmarks galore and memories gay [JOHNNY] So move Grant's Tomb to Union Square [KING] And put Brooklyn anywhere [JOHNNY AND KING] But please, please, I beg on my knees don't monkey with old Broadway (Chorus 2) [JOHNNY] Plant trees in the Polo Grounds [KING] And put Yorkville out of bounds [JOHNNY AND KING] But please don't monkey with Broadway [KING] Close the Village honkytonks [JOHNNY] And suppress cheering in the Bronx [JOHNNY AND KING] But please don't monkey with Broadway Think what names used to dance On this road of romance Think what stars used to stroll along it all day Make City Hall a skating rink And push Wall Street in the drink But please, please, I beg on my knees don't monkey with old Broadway