Name: The Elephant Hotel
Duration: P00H03M39S
Description: A fictional story about the famous Coney Island Hotel that burnt down in the early 1900s. I included the Switch Back Rail which was the very first roller coaster. At least it claimed to be the first.

The Elephant Hotel

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A fictional story about the famous Coney Island Hotel that burnt down in the early 1900s. I included the Switch Back Rail which was the very first roller coaster. At least it claimed to be the first.

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The Elephant Hotel

She went down to the bowery
In a brand new pair of boots
Past burlesque shows, bath houses
Postcards and prostitutes
She walked across the boardwalk
For what she’d never tell
And checked into a room at The Elephant Hotel

He took her to a side show
Magicians on the pier
Later to a ballroom
To dance and have a beer
They went down to the water
And into it they fell
Like many more before them at The Elephant Hotel

Complete with tusk and trunk
An elephant was made
With rooms inside it’s body
Cigar store in it’s leg

The lure was like and undertow
It grabbed him by his sleeve
Some would come and go
But he would never leave
He’d gone out to the island
To ride The Switch Back Rail
And took himself a job at the Elephant Hotel
Now he’s checking in the rubes
At the Elephant Hotel

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released September 13, 2015
Guitar and Vocal by David Shepherd Grossman
Greg Lisi: Drums
Johnny Kempt: Bass

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