Bronx River Song by Gerry Segal Artisan Songs published on 2014-05-05T18:58:34Z A Kid By the River Music and Lyrics Gerry Segal © 2008 BMI 1) For anything in New York City There’s something else that’s more pretty More expensive, more pretentious, more effete. I grew up way outside that box, Living uptown, north in the Bronx Like a moth I was drawn to the flame of city glitter But I left something so unique Chorus I’m the kid in the old picture Standing down by the city’s only river In the Bronx with my cowboy hat on 2) Biking down the river run My boys were free out in the sun No cops, no cars just me and my blue schwinn French Charley’s Field to Kensico From broad estates to El Barrio We rode fifteen miles along that dirty, murky river Only scared that we’d fall in Chorus 3) As my older years keep on coming fast I find the present tense cannot match the past And the banks of the river where I lived were much more green. I took a ride to the river in my beat up Dodge I saw herring in the water and a beaver lodge It’s greener then it was before Cleaner then it was before Better then it’s ever been Chorus If they made it cleaner and greener in the Bronx We can make it better anywhere Chorus Genre Bronx