 "Down in front of Casey's old brown wooden stoop"
"On a summer's evening we formed a merry group"
"Boys and girls together we would sing and waltz"
"While Jay played the organ on the sidewalks of New York"

"East Side, West Side, all around the town"
"The tots sang "ring-around-rosie," "London Bridge is falling down""
"Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke"
"Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York"

"That's where Johnny Casey, little Jimmy Crowe"
"Jakey Krause, the baker, who always had the dough"
"Pretty Nellie Shannon with a dude as light as cork"
"She first picked up the waltz step on the sidewalks of New York"

"Things have changed since those times, some are up in "G""
"Others they are wand'rers but they all feel just like me"
"They'd part with all they've got, could they once more walk"
"With their best girl and have a twirl on the sidewalks of New York"

The song is featured in a scene in the 1934 Shirley Temple film "Little Miss Marker".Another film released in 1934 that features the song is the drama film "Manhattan Melodrama", in which it is played by a band on the ill-fated steamboat "General Slocum", moments before it catches fire and sinks in the East River on June 15, 1904, which was New York's worst disaster until 9/11.In the 1950s, the tune was used for a commercial jingle advertising the Hot Shoppes restaurants (owned by J.W.