Manhattan-Rico
George Russell
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Ninety-five dollars to get to heaven
That's what it costs to fly from San
Juan, Puerto Rico to New York City
And if you're in San Juan in your native land
And you ain't standing on no moonlit veranda
Dressed in a full dress suit with a long cold drink in your hand
And you wanna get to where it's nice
That's the price
Ninety-five dollars to get to heaven
And here comes another kind of soul
To find that in the hottest part of summer it can still get very cold
A quick look around will tell you what's going on
You dig who's living high on the hog and who's the underdog
And you dig what shape the underdog is in
'Cause you're living where he just been
So you dig him and you dig your host
And you dig who it is you resemble the most
Right on down to the rhythm that moves you
There may be some slight difference in the way you say the word
But Machito didn't have any trouble cutting some sides with Bird
They probably had trouble pronouncing each other's name
But they showed how two things could sound altogether different
And yet have a familiar ring
Because they're the same thing