Billy Joel 52nd Street- 04- Zanzibar

This is the fourth track off of Billy Joel's six album, 52nd Street. This was his first #1 album. Zanzibar is not a single.

Lyrics:
Ali dances and the audience applauds
Though he's bathed in sweat he hasn't lost his style
Ali don't you go downtown
You gave away another round for free

Me, I'm just another face at Zanzibar
But the waitress always serves a secret smile
She's waiting out in Shantytown
She's gonna pull the curtains down for me, for me

CHORUS
I've got the old man's car,
I've got a jazz guitar
I've got a tab at Zanzibar
Tonight that's where I'll be

Rose, he knows he's such a credit to the game,
But the Yankees grab the headlines every time
Melodrama's so much fun
In black and white for everyone to see
Me, I'm trying just to get to second base
And I'd steal it if she only gave the sign
She's gonna give the go ahead
The inning isn't over yet for me,for me

CHORUS

Tell the waitress I'll come back to Zanzibar
I'll be hiding in the darkness with my beer.
She's waiting out in Shantytown
She's gonna pull the curtains down for me, for me

CHORUS

Copyright 1978, 1998 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
In no way do I own any of this song, album, or media.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Billy
• Joel
• 52nd
• Street
• Zanzibar
• #1
• Album
• 1978

[urchin76]

fav track off this album,,,, and should have been a single!!! great post

[ruskybalboa]

yeah, it should've been, great jazz feel, with a bit of latin jazz in the middle. a great song, easily.

[IDLERACER]

This was Billy Joel's salute to Steely Dan. In places, his voice sounds exactly like Donald Fagan's.

[UncleChuckTH]

Fantastic.

[Dactuck]

Sorry. 100centre, sees beans and Steve Almond, dancing amongst his progeny. Laugh and Dance with conviction. It would be an eternal honor to dance and laugh with men.

[Dactuck]

@Dactuck I'm talkin' about truth. I'm talkin' about the things we LIVE, and DIE for. Man up 100centre

[Dactuck]

Thanks for posting!

[Dactuck]

Well said! "Aretha did that Pink Cadillac crap". WHAT? You've exposed your ignorance about SOUL music. I'm talking about Arethra's "RESPECT". I'm, talkin 'bout Isaac Hayes, "WALK on BY".

[100centre]

@Dactuck and aren't the artists... well, true artists the ones who shape society to their ways

[100centre]

@MyKidC Now, to explain how Paul Simon has not recycled. He goes to different cultures for musical inspiration starting with Condor El Pasa. I haven't heard the most recent but, the man is now 70! rythmn of the saints was Brazilian drummers not African. Great career. Dylan love and Theft I believe has been given more merit due to Bob's age. If you were to list Bob's top 5 albums, love and theft in there? Top 10, maybe, that's all. Neil Young's Greendale is one of the only examples of better/old

[100centre]

@Dactuck False critic.... blah. look up Steve Almond. I don't see the glass of water as half full or empty, I see it as a glass of water. There is not has beens.. You left out Gil Scott Heron BRO. Issac always great and areatha did that Pink Cadilac crap. Difference the artists keep there integrity through that phase because that is what it is, a phase. Neil Young was able to sing this note's for you and weather the "rough" period.

[Dactuck]

@100centre Just about every false critic, outlives their societal value. Feel me? Great stuff. Isacc Hayes, The Spinners, Arethea, and Issac Hayes would have been considered has-beens, in your false universe of musical logic. The O'Jays, Rolls Royce, Teddy Pendergrass, Bobby Womack, the Temptations, the Stlystics. Remember? Go to sleep.

[MyKidC]

@100centre Couldn't disagree more with a few pts. Paul Simon has ABSOLUTELY recycled the whole Graceland thing and Bob Dylans Love and Theft is brilliant.