Ten Cents a Dance-Ruth Etting

[ti:Ten Cents a Dance] [ar:Ruth Etting] [al:At Sundown] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.44]Ten Cents a Dance - Ruth Etting [00:01.14]Written by：Hart Lorenz/Rodgers Richard [00:02.38] [00:04.74]I work at the Palace Ballroom but gee that Palace is cheap [00:12.44] [00:13.59]When I get back to my chilly hall room I'm much too tired to sleep [00:21.01] [00:22.30]I'm one of those lady teachers a beautiful hostess you know [00:30.26] [00:30.98]The kind the Palace features [00:34.77] [00:35.45]I exactly a dime a throw [00:39.84] [00:40.93]Ten cents a dance [00:42.84] [00:43.44]That's what they pay me [00:45.78]Gosh how they weigh me down [00:48.70] [00:50.29]Ten cents a dance [00:52.13] [00:52.73]Pansies and rough guys [00:55.06]Tough guys who tear my gown [00:58.22] [00:59.39]Seven to midnight I hear drums [01:02.99] [01:03.96]Loudly the saxophone blows [01:06.91] [01:08.37]Trumpets are breaking my eardrums [01:11.95] [01:13.07]Customers crush my toes [01:16.63] [01:17.61]Sometimes I think [01:19.82]I've found my hero [01:22.29]But it's a queer romance [01:25.23] [01:26.47]All that you need is a ticket [01:29.76] [01:31.26]Come on big boy ten cents a dance [01:35.53] [01:36.14]Fighters and sailors and bowlegged tailors [01:39.61]Can pay for their tickets and rent me [01:42.80] [01:44.01]Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbors [01:47.71]Are sweethearts my good luck has sent me [01:51.33] [01:51.99]Though I've a chorus of elderly beaux [01:55.86] [01:56.38]Stockings are porous with holes and the toes [02:00.39] [02:00.96]I'm there till closing time [02:04.64] [02:05.62]Dance and be merry it's only a dime [02:10.16]Ten cents a dance [02:12.43]That's what they pay me [02:14.90]Gosh how they weigh me down [02:17.64] [02:19.28]Ten cents a dance [02:21.71]Pansies and rough guys [02:24.07]Tough guys who tear my gown [02:27.46] [02:28.48]Seven to midnight I hear drums [02:32.12] [02:33.23]Loudly the saxophone blows [02:36.27] [02:37.65]Trumpets are breaking my eardrums [02:41.24] [02:42.28]Customers crush my toes [02:46.01] [02:46.99]Sometimes I think [02:49.29]I've found my hero [02:51.81]But it's a queer romance [02:54.75] [02:56.06]All that you need is a ticket [03:00.16] [03:01.06]Come on big boy ten cents a dance