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DADDY DON'T LIVE IN THAT NEW YORK CITY NO MORE Lyrics

Artist: Steely Dan
Album: Katy Lied

Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more
He don't celebrate Sunday on a Saturday night
No more
Daddy don't need no lock and key
For the piece he stowed
Out on Avenue D
Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more
Daddy don't drive in that Eldorado
No more
He don't travel on down to the neighborhood
Liquor store
Lucy still loves her coke and rum
But she sits alone
'Cause her daddy can't come
Daddy don't drive in that Eldorado
No more

Driving like a fool out to Hackensack
Drinking his dinner from a paper sack
He says I gotta see a joker
And I'll be right back

Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more
He can't get tight every night
Pass out on the barroom floor
Daddy can't get no fine cigar
But we know you're smoking
Wherever you are
Daddy don't live in that New York City
No more

Comments/Interpretations

by ?? on 4/25/2010 6:23am
This great tune is NOT on Aja.

by Cornelius on 8/1/2011 5:41pm
I liked this song when I first heard it on Katy Lied. Daddy's a bad dude, and keeps a piece out on Ave D. Daddy is obviously a cool black guy, who knows the street but is lying low for a while. A fun song.

by NeilH on 3/4/2012 9:01pm
Just love the way this song starts(among other things i like about it!)

by Meher Baba on 3/27/2012 10:00pm
Since I lived in NYC for 15 years, and now live in the Himalayas at 6,000 feet, the song always makes me nostalgic about my life in the Big Apple and the greatest time I had from 1990 to 2005.

by rompari on 2/23/2013 9:34pm
Obviously daddy died in a drunk driving accident.