John Lennon - New York City Lyrics

Imagine John coming on stage at Madison Square Garden or Giants Stadium in the mid-1980s to sing this as an encore guest of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Im 12 and i love the fab 4 and I was gonna listen to all the solo stuff by all 4 of them cause a month ago I played all the Beatles albums and singles and im doing the solo challenge and im starting with john and half of the live stuff I don't play cause it's yoko in a bag screaming and i believe yoko hired the guy to kill John but anyways mind games and on is good though i own a LP of imagine and double fantasy so i know they are good and after john im doing George then Ringo then paul then wings!!

Skip Wings

This wouldn't have been out of place on With the Beatles Album :)

Great song,album,singer,band and decade.

If this is his worst just shows how good he can be !!!😸😹😻

I don't know English very well and I don't love Lennon，but I love his several songs，he's a real singer with a free soul，just like this and IMAGINE.

I mean，one of the my only 2 fav songs of J.L.‘s.

You need to listen a whole album, and demos... And don't get stuck in imagine

Very much like The Ballad of John and Yoko would have been without Paul's influence.

Almost frighteningly similar to The Ballad of John and Yoko.

I think John really enjoyed this plain rock'n'roll.

El genio indiscutible de los beatles
Revolucionario pacifista y lider a nivel mundial
Lastima que un estupido maniatico nos privo de por lo menos 1oo producciones que ya no pudo realizar pero siempre estara vigente en nuestra mente y en nuestros corazones aparte me gustaria que paul le reconociera su liderasgo y no se quira comer el pastel solo
Posdáta, george fue el segundo de a bordo
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No fue chapman, fue el gobierno de E.U. quien ordeno su desaparición.

Perfect

Absolute tune

Qu'est-ce que cette bizarre photo d'Istanbul vient faire pour illustrer l'album de John Lennon "New York City" ??? Totalement déplacé et incompréhensible.

One of my fav Lennon songs of the 70s.

Standing on the corner
Just me and Yoko Ono
We was waiting for Jerry to land
Up come a man with a guitar in his hand
Singing, "Have a marijuana if you can"
His name was David Peel
And we found that he was real
He sang, "The Pope smokes dope every day"
Up come a policeman shoved us up the street
Singing, "Power to the people today!"
New York City, back in New York City, New York City
Que pasa, New York?
Que pasa, New York?
Well down to Max's Kansas City
Got down the nitty gritty
With the Elephants Memory Band
Laid something down
As the news spread around
About the Plastic Ono Elephants Memory Band!
And we played some funky boogie
And laid some tutti frutti
Singing, "Long Tall Sally's a man."
Up come a preacher man trying to be a teacher
Singing, "God's a red herring in drag!"
New York City, back in New York City, New York City
Que pasa, New York?
Que pasa, New York?
New York City, back in New York City, New York City
Que pasa, New York?
Que pasa, New York?
Well we did the Staten Island Ferry
Making movies for the telly
Played the Fillmore and Apollo for freedom
Tried to shake our image
Just a cycling through the Village
But found that we had left it back in London
Well nobody came to bug us
Hustle us or shove us
So we decided to make it our home
If the Man wants to shove us out
We gonna jump and shout
The Statue of Liberty said, "Come!"
New York City, back in New York City, New York City
Que pasa, New York?
Que pasa, New York?
New York City, back in New York City, New York City
Que pasa, New York?
Que pasa, New York?
Songwriters: John Winston Lennon

Another John style Rocker always ignored whenever a compilation album is issued. The ballads are great but please sometime include the upbeat numbers. Incidentally the only good number on a terrible album. john was always at his best singing about himself or his experiences close to home. Whenever he let Yoko talk him into doing the political stuff it never worked musically.

Best song from Sometime - a real classic with fantastic lyrics to boot....

Nobody's favorite Lennon album, but this song and "John Sinclair" are just about perfect.

I’ve always liked Luck of the Irish

@DrCatDog Aside from "New York City", I'd probably say my favorite track is "Sunday Bloody Sunday".

I usually don't like Yoko's music but Born In A Prison is great.

I like 'Angela' too.

MY FAVORITE LENNON SONG !!!!!!!!!

Great rock and roll song........never heard any of this music from John before, this is good :)