"The Holy City of" .... New York.

I asked a while back what the standard was for calling a city "the holy city of [name of city]." Najaf seems to qualify by some standard I was trying to detect. No place in the United States ever gets called "the holy city." Of course, this is testimony to the separation of church and state, a truly great idea. But if we were going to call a U.S. city holy, which one would it be? There are some interesting choices possible, but this morning the lyrics of this song were running through my head and I realized that Laura Nyro had long ago suggested the Holy City of New York:

... New York tendaberry

Blue berry

Rugs and drapes and drugs

And capes

Sweet kids in hunger slums

Firecrackers break

And they cross

And they dust

And they skate

And the night comes

I ran away in the morning

Now I'm back

Unpacked

Sidewalk and pigeon

You look like a city

But you feel like a religion

To me

New York tendaberry

True berry

I lost my eyes

I east wind skies

Here where I've cried

Where I've tried

Where God and the tendaberry rise

Where quakers and revolutionaries

Join for life

For precious years

Joined for life

Through silver tears

New York tendaberry

Lawprofs will recognize that Nyro had a Seeger-type definition of religion.