Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue Was the sign I saw when I suddenly thought Your health is your life Why why why was I thinking that Who's gonna pay when the children start crying You'll never never get away Strange how the air that you're breathing is dying It's gonna get rough, when I get to . . . Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue Was the sign I saw when I suddenly thought Your health is your life Keeps you alive Why why why was I thinking that When the rich man lies dying in his bed He'll be thinking of the very words I said When he's lying there dying in his bed He'll be thinking of the very words I said Repeat! Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue Was the sign I saw when I suddenly thought Your health is your life Keeps you alive