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