Listen to the rain on the roof go Pit-pitty-pat pit-pitty-pat-pitty Sit kitty cat We won't get home for hours Relax and Listen to the rain on the roof go Plunk-planka-plink Plunk-planka-plink-planka Let's have a drink And shelter from the showers Rain rain don't go away Fill up the sky Rain through the night We'll stay cozy and dry Listen to the rain on the roof go Pit-pitty-pat-Plunk-a-plink-Plank Pity that It's not a hurricane Listen - plink - to the - Lovely rain New York has neon Berlin has bars But ah Paris Shanghai has silk and Madrid guitars But ah Paris In Cairo you find bizarre bazaars In London - pip pip You sip tea But when it comes to love None of the above Compares Compris So if it's making love That you're thinking of Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Paris I have seen the ruins of Rome I've been in the igloos of Nome I have gone to Moscow It's very gay Well anyway On the first of May I have seen Rangoon and Soho And I like them more than so-so But when there's a moon Goodbye Rangoon Hello Montmartre Hello Peking has rickshaws New Orleans jazz But ah Paris Beirut has sunshine - that's all it has But ah Paris Constantinople has Turkish baths And Athens that lovely debris Carlsbad may have a spa But for ooh-Ia-Ia You come with me Carlsbad is where you're cured After you have toured Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Paris I'm just a Broadway Baby Walking off my tired feet Pounding 42nd Street To be in a show Broadway Baby Learning how to sing and dance Waiting for that one big chance To be in a show Gee I'd like to be On some marquee All twinkling lights A spark To pierce the dark From Battery Park To Washington Heights Some day maybe All my dreams will be repaid Hell I'd even play the maid To be in a show Say Mr Producer I'm talking to you sir I don't need a lot Only what I got Plus a tube of greasepaint and a follow-spot I'm a Broadway Baby Slaving at a five-and-ten Dreaming of the great day when I'll be in a show Broadway Baby Making rounds all afternoon Eating at a greasy spoon To save on my dough At My tiny flat There's just my cat A bed and a chair Still I'll stick it till I'm on a bill All over Times Square Broadway Baby walking off my tired feet Pounding 42nd Street To be in a show/New York has neon Berlin has bars But ah Paris Shanghai Has silk and Madrid/Listen to the rain on the roof go Pit-pitty-pat Working for a nice man Like a Ziegfeld or a Weismann In a great big Broadway Show