Ten Cents A Dance-Ruth Etting

[ti:Ten Cents a Dance] [ar:Ruth Etting] [al:Love Me or Leave Me: The Original Recordings of Ruth Etting] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ten Cents A Dance - Ruth Etting [00:05.51]I work at the Palace Ball [00:08.82] [00:10.36]But gee that palace is cheap [00:13.29] [00:14.69]When I get back to my chilly hallroom [00:18.76] [00:19.49]I'm much too tired to sleep [00:22.25] [00:23.64]I'm one of those lady teachers [00:26.64] [00:28.01]A beautiful hostess you know [00:32.10]The kind the palace features [00:35.63] [00:37.21]At exactly a dime a throw [00:40.69] [00:42.63]Ten cents a dance [00:44.17] [00:44.97]That's what they pay me [00:47.39]Gosh how they weigh me down [00:50.26] [00:52.02]Ten cents a dance [00:53.79] [00:54.47]Pansys and rough guys [00:56.26] [00:56.91]Tough guys who tear my gown [00:59.53] [01:01.54]Seven to midnight I hear drums [01:04.88] [01:06.00]Loudly the saxaphone blows [01:08.48] [01:10.50]Trumpets are breaking my eardrums [01:13.43] [01:15.34]Customers crush my toes [01:17.70] [01:20.15]Sometimes I think I've found my hero [01:24.16] [01:24.91]But it's a queer romance [01:27.55] [01:29.33]All that you need is a ticket [01:32.25] [01:33.91]Come on big boy [01:35.83] [01:36.34]Ten cents a dance [01:38.06] [01:39.21]Fighters and sailors and bow-legged tailors [01:42.01] [01:42.61]Can pay for a ticket and rent me [01:45.56] [01:47.04]Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbors [01:50.31] [01:51.00]Are sweethearts my good luck has sent me [01:54.10] [01:55.30]Though I've a chorus of elderly beaus [01:58.91] [02:00.13]Stockings are porous with holes in the toes [02:03.86] [02:04.67]I'm there till closing time [02:06.80] [02:09.22]Dance and be merry it's only a dime [02:13.00] [02:13.76]Ten cents a dance [02:15.62] [02:16.23]That's what they pay me [02:18.58]Gosh how they weigh me down [02:21.26] [02:23.05]Ten cents a dance [02:24.63] [02:25.53]Pansys and rough guys [02:27.33] [02:27.92]Tough guys who tear my gown [02:30.80] [02:32.64]Seven to midnight I hear drums [02:35.92] [02:37.31]Loudly the saxaphone blows [02:40.42] [02:41.86]Trumpets are breaking my eardrums [02:44.93] [02:46.57]Customers crush my toes [02:49.86] [02:51.62]Sometimes I think I've found my hero [02:55.98] [02:56.49]But it's a queer romance [02:59.67] [03:00.80]All that you need is a ticket [03:04.03] [03:06.50]Come on big boy [03:08.52] [03:09.20]Ten cents a dance