Take The A Train

Well, get aboard the 'A' train

To take a little ride around the city

Brooklyn or Broadway train

You'll see that old New York is mighty pretty

Take your baby subway ridin'

That's where romance may be hidin'

Forget your car or airplane

You'll find that it'll pay to take the 'A' train

You'll take your baby to Harlem

You're bound to find a heart

Up on Sugar Hill where everyone's having a solid ball

You board that 'A' train

And then you ride 'til you dig this number

145Th Street where all the cats meet

Posin' on a stroll, pops, they're really in there

Badalooda, ladalooday

That's the riff that the bands all play

It's groovy, the hep cats say

Then you know that you're in Harlem

You got to get off that 'A' train

And you will have a ball, yeah

If you're looking for rhythm you'll find it on Sugar Hill

Now that you know just how to get up there

Dig up a nickel and you got your fare

If you want to go to happy Harlem

You take the 'A' train that goes uptown and ride, ride, ride

Wait until you get on Sugar Hill

You'll jump for joy 'til you get your fill

Have you got your nickel in your hand?

Then hurry, don't you miss that train, old man

You must take the 'A' train

To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem

Better hurry, get aboard the train

145Th Street station, watch your step

Quit shovin' man, I'm gettin' off too

Okay, daddy-o

This is the 'A' train