RUTH ETTING - TEN CENTS A DANCE

TEN CENTS A DANCE

RUTH ETTING

SONGWRITER: LORENZ HART & RICHARD RODGERS

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: TEN CENTS A DANCE

LABEL: LIVING LIVING ERA

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1930

Ruth Etting (23 de novembro de 1896 – 24 de setembro de 1978) foi uma cantora estadunidense de muito sucesso nos anos de 1930. Gravou mais de sessenta discos. Seus maiores sucessos foram "Shine On Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" e "Love Me or Leave Me" e as gravações mais populares incluem: "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly like you" e "Shaking the Blues Away".

I work at the Palace Ball

But gee, that palace is cheap

When I get back to my chilly hallroom

I'm much too tired to sleep

I'm one of those lady teachers

A beautiful hostess you know

The kind the palace features

At exactly a dime a throw

Ten cents a dance

That's what they pay me

Gosh how they weigh me down

Ten cents a dance

Pansys and rough guys

Tough guys who tear my gown

Seven to midnight I hear drums

Loudly the saxaphone blows

Trumpets are breaking my eardrums!

Customers crush my toes

Sometimes I think I've found my hero

But it's a queer romance

All that you need is a ticket!

Come on big boy

Ten cents a dance

Fighters and sailors and bow-legged tailors

Can pay for a ticket and rent me

Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbors

Are sweethearts my good luck has sent me

Though I've a chorus of elderly beaus

Stockings are porous with holes in the toes

I'm there till closing time

Dance and be merry, it's only a dime!

Ten cents a dance

That's what they pay me

Gosh how they weigh me down

Ten cents a dance

Pansys and rough guys

Tough guys who tear my gown

Seven to midnight I hear drums

Loudly the saxaphone blows

Trumpets are breaking my eardrums!

Customers crush my toes

Sometimes I think I've found my hero

But it's a queer romance

All that you need is a ticket!

Come on big boy

Ten cents a dance.