Everybody's got to dance with the blues some times Everybody's got to feel feel something they don't want to feel sometimes I'd buy you a smile in a minute but would you wear it? If you had one moment to spare would you come down and share it? I want you out on the streets making a scene for everybody I want to hear your voice up above the crowd and the noise Down in the Bowery Down in the Bowery I hope you live long enough to forget half the stuff that they taught you And when it's all said and done I hope you got your own set of rules to hang on to I'd buy you a smile in a minute but would you wear it? If you had one moment to spare would you come down and share it? I want you out on the streets making a noise for everybody I want to hear your voice up above the crowd and the noise Down in the Bowery Down in the Bowery I hope you live long enough to forget half the stuff that they taught you And when it's all said and done I hope you got your own set of rules to hang on to I'd buy you a smile in a minute but would you wear it? If you had one moment to spare would you come down and share it? I want you out on the streets making a noise for everybody I want to hear your voice up above the crowd and the noise Down in the Bowery Down in the Bowery Down in the Bowery