Sunday Street - Dave Van Ronk

Not a dollar

Not a nickel

Not a penny to my name

I’m the king of tap city

And I’m out of the game

A nickel up

A nickel down

Another nickel gone

Ain’t got a nickel left to carry me on

If I ever get back on my feet

I’ll move from Saturday Alley up to Sunday Street

I’ll get a pair of dice that makes me seven all the time

Gonna be living on chicken and wine

I want caviar four star and Johnny Walker Black

Six pretty women in my gold Cadillac

Gonna move where the living is sweet

From Saturday Alley up to Sunday Street

My hands are shaking and I ain’t feeling well

From drinking King Kong liquor

And cheap Muscatel

But a little taste of bourbon

And breakfast in bed

And six million dollars can raise the dead

Just me and the other elite

Raisin' high class Hell on Sunday Street

Everybody says I’m talking out of my head

But nobody badmouths a man with the bread

All the whores are gonna drop their drawers

And say there goes the man that mugged Santa Claus

It pays to be discreet

When you’re talking to the king of Sunday Street

Do it now

Not a dollar

Not a nickel

Not a penny to my name

I’m the king of tap city

And I’m out of the game

A nickel up

A nickel down

Another nickel gone

Ain’t got a nickel left to carry me on

If I ever get back on my feet

I’ll move from Saturday Alley up to Sunday Street