New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing. A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs. The lyrics (words) of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, though they may be religious verses or free prose.
A song may be for a solo singer, a duet, trio, or larger ensemble involving more voices. Songs with more than one voice to a part are considered choral works. Songs can be broadly divided into many different forms, depending on the criteria used. One division is between "art songs", "pop songs", and "folk songs". Other common methods of classification are by purpose (sacred vs secular), by style (dance, ballad, Lied, etc.), or by time of origin (Renaissance, Contemporary, etc.).
A song is a piece of music for accompanied or unaccompanied voice or voices or, "the act or art of singing," but the term is generally not used for large vocal forms including opera and oratorio. However, the term is, "often found in various figurative and transferred sense (e.g. for the lyrical second subject of a sonata...)." The noun "song" has the same etymological root as the verb "to sing" and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the word to mean "that which is sung" or "a musical composition suggestive of song." The OED also defines the word to mean "a poem" or "the musical phrases uttered by some birds, whales, and insects, typically forming a recognizable and repeated sequence and used chiefly for territorial defence or for attracting mates."
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NYC SONG
Hey little girl take me by the hand
Walk with me down this boardwalk
Once last time again
I wanna see those pretty pier lights
I wanna hear those carnival sounds
I wanna stop right at the top again
When the ferris wheel goes round
Well you say that I’ve been restless
And you don’t understand
Tomorrow I’ll be leavin’ on that
Morning train
I gotta leave this candy apple town behind
I gotta get out while I still can
I’m going to New York City
With this guitar in my hand
I’ve been wishin on these stars too long
I’ve been playin’ in these bars too long
I’ve been hold up in your arms too long
I’ve been a prisoner of my heart too long
I’m goin’ to New York City
Gotta find out where I stand
And I’ll be walking down broadway
With this guitar in my hand
Well I sing for the tourists
‘bout a dream life on the water
but when the dream it gets broken
this life gets harder and harder
I gotta leave this candy apple town behind
I gotta get out while I still can
I’m going to New York City
With this guitar in my hand
I’ve been wishin on these stars too long
I’ve been playin’ in these bars too long
I’ve been hold up in your arms too long
I’ve been a prisoner of my heart too long
I’m goin’ to New York City
Gotta find out where I stand
And I’ll be walking down broadway
NYC Song
(John Cafferty 1989)
I say, hey little girl take me by the hand
Walk with me down this boardwalk one last time again
We see those pretty pear lights, hear those carnival sounds
We stop right at the top tonight, the first view goes around
You say that I've been restless, you don't understand
Tomorrow I'll be leavin' on the morning train
Could leave this candy everytime behind
To get out while I still can
Go to New York city, with this guitar in my hand
Wish all these stars to know, the player in these bars to know
Hold up in your arms to know, the prisoner of my heart to know
Go to New York city, to find out where I stay
And I'll be walking down the broadway, with this guitar in my hand
I sing for these tourists, by the dream life on the water
The dream make it's broken, this life's yet harder and harder
Could leave this candy everytime behind
To get out while I still can
Go to New York city, with this guitar in my hand
Wish all these stars to know, the player in these bars to know
Hold up in your arms to know, the prisoner of my heart to know
Go to New York city, to find out where I stay
And I'll be walking down the broadway, with this guitar in my hand
posted EC92BURK
Performed by
John Cafferty & the beaver brown band
on
original motion picture soundtrack
"Eddie and the cruisers II" 1989