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ManhattanBob Seger

Released: October 24, 1995

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
Shakey Davey's got a twelve gauge in his hand
It's sawed off to the limit
He's got a vague plan
There's this liquor store on Madison
There's another one down on Washington Square
He's pretty sure no one's ever seen him
Down around there

[Verse 2]
The first one's birdshot
The next four are double aught buck
The last one's a slug
Just for good luck
He's got his works in his pocket
He wants to score as soon as he's done
He can't wait to get straight
To get long gone

[Bridge]
He puts on his long coat
Scribbles off a short note
Sits himself down and waits for the sun to go down

[Verse 3]
It's right around midnight
And there's still too damn many people on this street
He's walked all the way from Battery Park
He's got sweaty hands and burnin' feet
He's desperate for a fix
His body's screamin' "Get me high"
He bursts through the door
And lets one fly

[Verse 4]
Sunrise in the park
And Davey's cold as stone
He got some bad merchandise
And he was all alone
Two more unsolved mysteries
A lot of paper pushed around
Most folks are just wakin' up
In this great big town

Bob Seger

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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