Downtown -- A song that can cheer me up again --

From the moment I heard Petula Clark sing this song on the TV when I was 4 or 5 years old, I loved it!

Downtown  - Lyrics

When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go downtown.
When you've got worries all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help I know downtown.

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?

The lights are much brighter there
you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
so go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure downtown
Everything's waiting for you.

Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows downtown.
Maybe you know some little places to go to
where they never close downtown.

Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova

You'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over

happy again.
The lights are much brighter there
you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
so go - downtown
Where all the lights are bright downtown
waiting for you tonight downtown
you're gonna be alright now
downtown
downtown

downtown

And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to

guide them along.
So maybe I'll see you there
we can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares
so go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown

don't wait a minute more downtown
Everything is waiting for you
downtown
downtown
downtown
downtown
downtown
downtown
downtown...

December 2020 Update: It is with great sorrow that this lovely song, which was tarnished by the dangers of COVID-19, has been tragically connected to the awful Christmas Bombing in Nashville.

I'd like to reclaim it from any tragic associations. Things are getting better. It can again still be great to go Downtown.