Tap Water

In other cities, do they ask
Which water you’d prefer?
A sparkling kind (they’ll charge you)
Or the tap? (free, you’d infer).

For New York City water
Has a fresh and bracing taste.
Any reason to refuse it
Would be bogus and misplaced.

Other H2O’s, I’ve noticed,
Have a real metallic tang,
Like the pipes were old and rusty
In the place from which they sprang.

But when New York City dining,
In a restaurant or dive,
Answer “tap” to any waiter
And don’t fall for any jive.