(Verse)
[JOHNNY AND KING]
Due to landscape gardeners gifted
Knickerbocker spaces are being lifted
So much
That you hardly know it as such
All the streets are being dressed up
So before they ruin Broadway, I suggest that
You go
To the city fathers and say, "Whoa!"

(Chorus)
[JOHNNY]
Glorify Sixth Avenue

[KING]
And put bathrooms in the zoo

[JOHNNY AND KING]
But please don't monkey with Broadway

[KING]
Put big floodlights in the park

[JOHNNY]
And put Harlem in the dark
[JOHNNY AND KING]
But please don't monkey with Broadway
Though it's tawdry and plain
It's a lovely old lane
Full of landmarks galore and memories gay

[JOHNNY]
So move Grant's Tomb to Union Square

[KING]
And put Brooklyn anywhere

[JOHNNY AND KING]
But please, please, I beg on my knees don't monkey with old Broadway

(Chorus 2)
[JOHNNY]
Plant trees in the Polo Grounds

[KING]
And put Yorkville out of bounds

[JOHNNY AND KING]
But please don't monkey with Broadway

[KING]
Close the Village honkytonks
[JOHNNY]
And suppress cheering in the Bronx

[JOHNNY AND KING]
But please don't monkey with Broadway
Think what names used to dance
On this road of romance
Think what stars used to stroll along it all day

Make City Hall a skating rink
And push Wall Street in the drink
But please, please, I beg on my knees don't monkey with old Broadway