Ten Cents A Dance-Ruth Etting

[ti:Ten Cents A Dance] [ar:Ruth Etting] [al:Hit Songs From Broadway] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ten Cents A Dance - Ruth Etting [00:05.42]I work at the Palace Ball [00:10.61]But gee that palace is cheap [00:13.72] [00:14.90]When I get back to my chilly hallroom [00:20.11]I'm much too tired to sleep [00:23.07] [00:24.29]I'm one of those lady teachers [00:28.30] [00:29.06]A beautiful hostess you know [00:33.57]The kind the palace features [00:37.76] [00:38.50]At exactly a dime a throw [00:43.48] [00:44.45]Ten cents a dance [00:46.42] [00:47.00]That's what they pay me [00:49.74]Gosh how they weigh me down [00:52.66] [00:54.43]Ten cents a dance [00:56.41] [00:56.99]Pansys and rough guys [00:59.67]Tough guys who tear my gown [01:02.95] [01:04.29]Seven to midnight I hear drums [01:07.93] [01:09.01]Loudly the saxaphone blows [01:12.46] [01:13.90]Trumpets are breaking my eardrums [01:17.89] [01:18.86]Customers crush my toes [01:22.79] [01:23.85]Sometimes I think I've found my hero [01:28.64]But it's a queer romance [01:31.94] [01:33.24]All that you need is a ticket [01:37.11] [01:38.23]Come on big boy [01:41.00]Ten cents a dance [01:42.92] [01:43.67]Fighters and sailors and bow-legged tailors [01:47.29]Can pay for a ticket and rent me [01:51.12] [01:52.11]Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbors [01:56.07]Are sweethearts my good luck has sent me [01:59.79] [02:00.66]Though I've a chorus of elderly beaus [02:05.38]Stockings are porous with holes in the toes [02:09.50] [02:10.23]I'm there till closing time [02:14.48] [02:15.14]Dance and be merry it's only a dime [02:20.10]Ten cents a dance [02:22.53]That's what they pay me [02:24.91]Gosh how they weigh me down [02:28.07] [02:29.87]Ten cents a dance [02:31.80] [02:32.41]Pansys and rough guys [02:34.83]Tough guys who tear my gown [02:38.74] [02:39.82]Seven to midnight I hear drums [02:43.58] [02:44.64]Loudly the saxaphone blows [02:48.25] [02:49.37]Trumpets are breaking my eardrums [02:53.24] [02:54.31]Customers crush my toes [02:58.62] [02:59.49]Sometimes I think I've found my hero [03:04.50]But it's a queer romance [03:07.51] [03:09.21]All that you need is a ticket [03:13.72] [03:14.41]Come on big boy [03:17.66]Ten cents a dance