Well, get aboard the "A" Train to take a little ride around the City.
Brooklyn or Broadway train you see that only yours is riding pretty
Take your baby subway ridin' that's when a romance may be hidin'
Forget your car or airplane, you find a little day to take the A Train
You take your baby to Harlem - you're bound to find a hall
Up on Sugar Hill - where everyone's having a solid ball
You'll board that "A" Train, and then you ride 'til you dig this number:
145 Street where all the cats meet - more than on a stroll.
Pops, they're really in there.
(scat)
That's the riff that the bands all play
It's groovy the hep-cats say; then you'll know that you're in Harlem
You got to get on that
"A" Train, and you will have a ball - yeah
If you're lookin' for rhythm, you'll find it on Sugar Hill.
Now that you know just how to get up there
Dig up a nickel and you got your fare
If you want to go to happy Harlem
You take the "A" Train that goes uptown
And ride, ride, ride
Wait until you get on Sugar Hill
You'll jump for joy 'til you get your fill
Have you got your nickel in your hand?
Then hurry, don't you miss that train- oh man!
You must take the "A" Train
To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem
Better hurry - get aboard that train!
(spoken)
145th Street Station, watch your step!
Quit shovin' man, I'm getting off too!
O.K. Daddy-O.
Brooklyn or Broadway train you see that only yours is riding pretty
Take your baby subway ridin' that's when a romance may be hidin'
Forget your car or airplane, you find a little day to take the A Train
You take your baby to Harlem - you're bound to find a hall
Up on Sugar Hill - where everyone's having a solid ball
You'll board that "A" Train, and then you ride 'til you dig this number:
145 Street where all the cats meet - more than on a stroll.
Pops, they're really in there.
(scat)
That's the riff that the bands all play
It's groovy the hep-cats say; then you'll know that you're in Harlem
You got to get on that
"A" Train, and you will have a ball - yeah
If you're lookin' for rhythm, you'll find it on Sugar Hill.
Now that you know just how to get up there
Dig up a nickel and you got your fare
If you want to go to happy Harlem
You take the "A" Train that goes uptown
And ride, ride, ride
Wait until you get on Sugar Hill
You'll jump for joy 'til you get your fill
Have you got your nickel in your hand?
Then hurry, don't you miss that train- oh man!
You must take the "A" Train
To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem
Better hurry - get aboard that train!
(spoken)
145th Street Station, watch your step!
Quit shovin' man, I'm getting off too!
O.K. Daddy-O.