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Friday, June 29, 2018

Oscar Benton - Bensonhurst Blues




Bensonhurst is a large, multiethnic neighborhood in the southwestern part of the New York City Borough of Brooklyn in the United States.  It is well known as a Little Italy of Brooklyn due to its large Italian-American population. Bensonhurst also has the largest population of residents born in China of any neighborhood in New York City and is now home to Brooklyn's second Chinatown.  




Bay Parkway wonder
You're such a success
Your pretty secretary, ha
She say you are the best
Your face always smiling
Say you sure paid your dues
But I know inside
You've got the Bensonhurst blues

Those custom-made ciggies
That you offer to me pretend
And pretend to care about my family
And those pictures on your desk
All them lies that you abuse
Do they know you suffer
From the Bensonhurst blues

Your grandmother's accent
Still embarrasses you 
You're even ashamed 
Of the French you once knew 
You're part of the chance now 
They break you making the news 
But I know inside 
You've got the Bensonhurst blues

But thanks for the lesson
Cause the life that I choose
Won't make me feel like living
With the Bensonhurst blues
And don't, don't try to write me
And don't bother to call
Cause I'll be in conference
Merry Christmas you all
Songwriters: Artie Kaplan / Artie Kornfeld

Oscar Benton - Bensonhurst blues ( Rare Original Footage French TV 1973 )