Schubert wrote a symphony

Too bad he didn't finish it

Gershwin took a chord in g

Proceeded to diminish it

I sought a variation

On a theme that I thought pretty

And I found my inspiration

On the east side of the city

The cohens and the kellys

The campbells and vermicellis

All form a part of

My tenement symphony

The cohen's pianola

The kellys and their victrola

All warm the heart of

My tenement symphony

The campbells come

Tumb'lin down the stairs

Hoodlie ah hoodlie ah hoodlie ah

Oh marie oh marie

You'll be late for your date with izzy

And from this confusion

I dreamed of a grand illusion

It's my tenement symphony in four flats

The kid on the first floor practicing the minuet

The kid on the second floor yelling

For the dinner that he didn't get

The guy on the third floor

Wakened from his slumber

By the guy on the fourth floor

Practicing the rhumba

And from this confusion

I dreamed of a grand illusion

It's my tenement symphony in four flats