and, uh, anyways, let's see what else I-I, uh it was coney island they called coney island the playground of the world, there was no place like it in the whole world—like coney island when I was a youngster no place in the world like it, it was so fabulous now it's shrunk down to almost nothing, you see

and I still remember in my mind how things used to be and, you know, I feel very bad, but people from all over the world came here, from all over the world it was the playground they called it the playground of the world over here

anyways, uh, you see, I, uh, you know I even got, when I was, uh, when I was very small I even got lost at coney island, but they found me..

on the, on, on the beach

and we used to sleep on the beach here, sleep overnight they, uh, they don't do that anymore things changed, you see

they don't sleep anymore on the beach