Coney Island Baby Lyrics

Lyric discussion by KubalahtKoala 

Cover art for Coney Island Baby lyrics by Tom Waits

For you non NYers out there, 'Dreamland', located next to Astroland, was one of the amusement parks in Coney Island (1904-11).

I believe it was the one that featured an entire miniature NYC peopled with midgets living on premises & where an infamous escaped elephant rampage occurred, which lead to the world's first electrocution of a living creature (done by Thomas Edison). Now, it is home to one of the worlds last freak shows. As you can see: Tom Wait's kind of place!

P.S. Coney Island Baby was a 60s doo-wop song (not sure by who) & a Lou Reed Song as well. P.S.S. Love rhyming princess w/ red dress (something too dangerous about red for a princess to wear it), and off rhyming pearl w/ world - it makes you think of the world as a pearl, perhaps a pearl inside a clam washed up with the syringes and bottlecaps and flotsam, on a coney island beach.