The Wicked City

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>The Wicked City</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>In Little Old New York, New York,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>That town the country rails at so,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The devil wields his busy fork</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And pitches many souls below.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But - out in moral Kokomo</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>He gest as big a </B></I><I><B>share</B></I><I><B> to fry</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>He grabs a greater </B></I><I><B>number</B></I><I><B>, though,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In Little Old new York, N.Y.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>In Little Old new York, New York,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Are many cruel hearts and cold;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>No sentiment do they uncork,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They care for nothing, only gold.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But - there are folks like that, I'm told,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In other places you pass by,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Not all the money-mad we hold </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In Little Old New York, N.Y.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>In little Old New York, New York,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Five million people live and toil:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The trains, the ships, and eke the stork</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Are ever adding to the moil.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And some there be who crush and spoil,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And some who waste in revel high,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But most just make the kettle boil</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In Little Old New York, N.Y.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>In Little Old new York, New York,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You find the thing you seek to find:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The revelers who pull the cork,--</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The people simple, honest, kind;</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Vice,--if to vice you are inclined,--</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Or virtue; truth or eke a lie,--</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Whatever seems to suit your mind,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In Little Old New York, N.Y.</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="puck_s_weekly_magazine.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pucks Weekly Magazine"><U><I>Puck's Weekly magazine</I></U></A><I> - February 21, 1912</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>