Good morning, everyone! Time for 20 sit-ups, a bubble bath, and the 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)©. A love letter to my hometown, the Big Apple. New York. I guess you might say that love letters are old-fashioned, but there’s nothing old-fashioned about love! I posted this song during COVID (although when things were improving) in the hope that it would be rediscovered and bring gentle joy to you all.
This song, by Simon & Garfunkel, appears on their 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. “59th Street Bridge” is the nickname for New York’s Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. I love this song because it’s soft, sweet and tender, low-tech, no gimmicks. And it gives New York a kind of dreamy romance separate from the city’s hard-edged, fast-paced rhythms.
Slow down, you move too fast
You got to make the morning last
Just kicking down the cobblestones
Looking for fun and feeling groovy
Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy
Hello lamppost, what’cha knowing
I’ve come to watch your flowers growin’
Ain’t you got no rhymes for me?
Doo-ait-n-doo-doo, feeling groovy
Ba da-da da-da da-da, feeling groovy
I got no deeds to do, no promises to keep
I’m dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morningtime drop all its petals on me
Life, I love you, all is groovy
Source: LyricFind
Songwriter: Paul Simon
Publisher: Universal Music Group
With thanks to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. And with gratitude to music makers everywhere.
Thanks Amy. I also Love to go down memory lane.
Maybe Paul Simon was saying, just live your life and let life happen. Feel the groove. Just take it all in. I do miss the subway trains In NYC.
I’m feeling groovy today. Lol
I am feeling the grooviness, and it’s a Monday morning with a whole new week to play with, thanks!
Your comment made me think of that saying: “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Wow…
Great tune! There is a spectacular cover version on “The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper” live double album from 1969
I checked it out. Love it!
Great share. Wish I still had that album.
Reminds me how much I love Paul Simon’s lyrics – why hasn’t he gotten a Nobel Prize?????
Leslie, you raise a very interesting question. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? Amy