Grasshoppers rule the
fields of goldenrod,
a few blocks down the
carnival sound of everyday life.
Let’s go home and eat macaroni
and drink black cherry soda,
there are fireworks tonight,
and Tito Puente is cool
at Atlantis,
it's hot like it should be.

Dangerous? Maybe for you
but not for me
after all this is
nineteen seventy three,
and it's Brooklyn in August.
Maybe someday you will
see it that way,
but for now it's just
Brooklyn in August.

Everybody sing American Pie
my my, my my, my my
AM radio is my time marching
bye bye, bye bye.
Maybe someday you will
see it that way,
but for now it's just
Brooklyn in August.

Someone's older sister
got a date with a
Dodge Dart Swinger.
Seabreeze Park is a
veritable garden of Eden
When all you want to do is
walk the girl home
queen's knight to King four,
as the princess of Brighton
sits and crosses,
it's hot like it's should be.

Dangerous? Maybe for you
but not for me
after all this is
nineteen seventy three
and it's Brooklyn in August.
Maybe someday you will
see it that way,
but for now it's just
Brooklyn in August

Everybody sing American Pie
my my, my my, my my
AM radio is my time marching
bye bye, bye bye
Maybe someday you will
see it that way,
but for now it's just
Brooklyn in August.

Flick your caps
filled with crayon wax
throw your stick at the sun,
everybody gets to play,
everybody gets to run.

Hard luck legends
strumin' beach guitars,
whatever happened
to the pretty girl
who used to play Oh Caritas?
Bring my black bottom pizza
with 7up in glass,
there are fireworks tonight,
as the princess of Brighton
sits and crosses
it's hot like it should be.

Dangerous? Maybe for you,
but not for me
after all this is
nineteen seventy three
and it's Brooklyn in August.
Maybe someday you will
see it that way,
but for now it's just
Brooklyn in August.

Everybody sing American Pie
my my, my my, my my
AM radio is my time machine
bye bye, bye bye.
Maybe someday you will
see it that way
but for now it's just
Brooklyn in August.