Beacon

Riveters shooting steel
where normal humans dare not tread
construction workers on high beam stunts
we owe much to Joe Hardhat

Clanging iron, the next step up
skyscrapers rising taller by the hour
we owe much to engineers
we owe much to hands that work

This city my city, New York City
is layered in geological and human doings
The island of Manhattan was carved by glaciers,
and neath our streets we have the world of cables

Our first tenants were Redmen
Then, came Dutch and English after
When I speak Bronx,
you can't tell if I'm Jew or Irish

JFK (the President) said, "Ich bin ein Berliner."
Make no mistake about it, Abigail is a New Yorker
born and bred where the estuary in two divides;
Hudson River to the West, Harlem River to the east.

At the southern tip, the land-grip of Twin Towers,
flashing codes of world commerce
and then, one day...destruction
Burn in hell Mohammed Ata.