Coney Island Fair

Buy me a ticket on a carnival ride, take me out to dance
I'm getting older with nothing to show for all this rambling
Hold my hand on the ferris wheel like our parents did
Love was pure then, I was sure when I was just a kid

Please say to me you'll have flowers in your hair
I'll be right on time for the Coney Island fair

Earn me passage on a sailing ship to the coast of Spain
Even in the sleepless city I'm a stowaway
I will change my coat and hat and be a noble man
Seek my riches and beggars wishes on these foreign sands

Please say to me that you'll write me while I'm there
I will return for the Coney Island fair

I know age has bought my face and sold it for a dime
And you have saved up all your grace just to barter it for mine
Guide me through these neon stalls past the tired games
I don't remember the way I had been but you still know my name

Please say to me that you'll always find me there
When you were my love at the Coney Island fair

Please say to me you'll have flowers in your hair
I'll be right on time for the Coney Island fair