the lights are bright in the new york night there s a bustle on the street and you feel alive but you don t know why and you re dizzy from the heat the traffic moves in rhythm with your own heart beat when you woke today and you didn t know what the world is all about now you ll never see the way you saw before and now there isn t any doubt the city s full of questions that you must find out let me show you my manhattan it s mesmerizing a metropolitan dream you would thrive in my manhattan mesmerizing a thousand lights for you to see all the things you ll be let me show you my manhattan jerusha and a trolley car and a two cent plain then julia buys a hat so we re running late for a play at 8 bout a danish autocrat a town that never sleeps can you imagine that let me show you my manhattan it s captivating it s captivating the new york times at your door you would flourish in manhattan mesmerizing  there s so much wonder in the air nothing can compare let me show you my manhattan jerusha mercy daddy isn t new york big do you mean to tell me that you actually live in all that confusion it will take me months to recover from two days of it you are welcome in manhattan it s waiting for you rendezvous in time square there s george m cohan take a chance on my manhattan 5th avenue the algonquin is the rage caruso on the stage write a page about manhattan it s babes in toyland the plaza rubbing elbows with a queen while having drinks with oscar hammerstein the belasco and the met coney island all the sights you will not soon forget just there s j p morgan hop on the 9th avenue line the city could be yours and mine my manhattan your manhattan your manhattan our manhattan1