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Coney Island Baby Lyrics By The Excellents

    you know man when i was a young man in high school
    you believe in or not that i wanted to play football for the coach
    all those older guys
    they said he was mean and cruel
    but you know i wanted to play football for the coach
    they said i was to little too light weight to play lineback
    so i say i’m playing rightend
    wanted to play football for the coach
    cause you know some day man
    you gotta stand up straight
    unless you’re gonna fall
    then you’re gonna die
    and the straightest dude i ever knew
    was standing right for me all the time
    so i had to play football for the coach
    and i wanted to play football for the coach

    when you’re all alone and lonely
    in your midnight hour
    and you find that your soul
    it has been up for sale

    and you getting to think about
    all the things you done
    and you getting to hate
    just about everything

    but remember the princess who lived on the hill
    who loved you even though she knew you was wrong
    and right now she just might come shining through
    and the

    glory of love glory of love
    glory of love just might come through

    and all your twobit friends
    have gone and ripped you off
    they’re talking behind your back saying man
    you are never going to be a human being
    and you start thinking again
    about all those things that you’ve done
    and who it was and who it was
    and all the different things you made every different scene

    ah but remember that the city is a funny place
    something like a circus or a sewer
    and just remember different people have peculiar tastes
    and the

    glory of love the glory of love
    the glory of love might see you through
    yeah but now now
    glory of love the glory of love
    the glory of love might see you through
    glory of love ah huh huh the glory of love
    glory of love glory of love
    glory of love now glory of love now
    glory of love now now now glory of love
    glory of love give it to me now glory of love see you through
    oh my coney island baby now
    i’m a coney island baby now
    i’d like to send this one out for lou and rachel
    and all the kids and ps 9
    coney island baby
    man i’d swear i’d give the whole thing up for you

    Artist: The Excellents

    Year: 1963

    Decade: 60s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 202