21. "53rd & 3rd" (Ramones, 1976)

Första listplaceringen från det monumentala debutalbumet från 1976. Ett klassiskt Ramones-epos och en av de första låtarna gruppen skrev.

Korsningen 53:e gatan och 3:e avenyn. Under början av sjuttiotalet en samlingspunkt för manliga prostituerade i New York. Nu, en korsning som vilken annan i staden, men för Ramones-fans en lika viktigt sevärdhet som adressen där CBGBs låg eller Joey Ramone Place i korsningen 2:a gatan och Bowery.

Huruvida låten är självbiografisk och därmed handlar om Dee Dees egna upplevelser som prostituerad för att finansiera det heroinberoende som två decennium senare kom att ta hans liv råder det delade meningar om.

"If you think you can, well come on man I was a Green Beret in Vietnam
No more of your fairy stories 'Cause I got my other worries
53rd and 3rd Standing on the street
53rd and 3rd I'm tryin' to turn a trick
53rd and 3rd You're the one they never pick
53rd and 3rd Don't it make you feel sick?
If you think you can, well come on man I was a Green Beret in Vietnam
No more of your fairy stories 'Cause I got my other worries
53rd and 3rd Standing on the street
53rd and 3rd I'm tryin' to turn a trick
53rd and 3rd You're the one they never pick
53rd and 3rd Don't it make you feel sick?
Then I took out my razor blade Then I did what God forbade
Now the cops are after me But I proved that I'm no sissy
53rd and 3rd Standing on the street
53rd and 3rd I'm tryin' to turn a trick
53rd and 3rd You're the one they never pick
53rd and 3rd Don't it make you feel sick?
53rd & 3rd 53rd & 3rd 53rd & 3rd 53rd & 3rd
53rd & 3rd 53rd & 3rd 53rd & 3rd 53rd & 3rd"