A pair of new shoes with matching laces   A permanent box at the cheap set races   A porcelain tub with boiling water   A Saturday night with the mayors daughter      Look at me I'm the king of New York   Suddenly I'm respectable starin right at ya   Lousy with stature      Nobbin with all the muckety mucks   I'm blowin my dough and going deluxe then   there I be ain't I pretty    it's my city    I'm the King of New York      A corduroy suit with fitted knickers   A mezzanine seat to see the flickers   Havana cigars that cost a quarter   an editors desk for the star reporter      tip your hat hes the king of new york (how bout that i'm the king of new york)   in nothing flat he'll be covering   Brooklyn to Trenton    our man Denton      making the headline out of hunch      protecting the weak      and paying for lunch       when i'm at bat    strong men crumble       proud yet humble   I'm the King of New York(He's the King of New York)      Gotta be either dead or dreamin   just look at that pape with my face beamin   tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it   but I was a star for one whole minute.      Starting now, I'm the king of New York   Ain't ya heard I'm the King of New York   Holy Cow!   It's a miracle   Pulitzer's cryin, Weasel he's dying      Flashpots are shooting bright as the sun   I'm one high falutin son of a gun   don't ask me how fortune found me   fate just crowned me    Now I'm king of New York!   Look and see    once a piker now a striker   I'm the King of New York!   Victory front page story   guts and glory   I'm the King of New York