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Tin pan alley Chris Smith, who writes for Blues & Rhythm magazine in the UK, added to the story by pointing out that the unsavoury reputation of places so named survives in Tin Pan Alley Blues, written by Bob Geddins around 1953. Its opening verse is:

They tell me Tin Pan Alley, roughest place in town,

Start cutting and shooting, soon as the sun goes down;

Hey, tell me, what kind of place can that alley be?

Every woman I get, the alley takes her away from me.

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