[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
[00:14.90]When I get back to my chilly hallroom
[00:20.11]I'm much too tired to sleep
[00:24.29]I'm one of those lady teachers
[00:29.06]A beautiful hostess you know
[00:33.57]The kind the palace features
[00:38.50]At exactly a dime a throw
[00:44.45]Ten cents a dance
[00:47.00]That's what they pay me
[00:49.74]Gosh how they weigh me down
[00:54.43]Ten cents a dance
[00:56.99]Pansys and rough guys
[00:59.67]Tough guys who tear my gown
[01:04.29]Seven to midnight I hear drums
[01:09.01]Loudly the saxaphone blows
[01:13.90]Trumpets are breaking my eardrums
[01:18.86]Customers crush my toes
[01:23.85]Sometimes I think I've found my hero
[01:28.64]But it's a queer romance
[01:33.24]All that you need is a ticket
[01:38.23]Come on big boy
[01:41.00]Ten cents a dance
[01:43.67]Fighters and sailors and bow-legged tailors
[01:47.29]Can pay for a ticket and rent me
[01:52.11]Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbors
[01:56.07]Are sweethearts my good luck has sent me
[02:00.66]Though I've a chorus of elderly beaus
[02:05.38]Stockings are porous with holes in the toes
[02:10.23]I'm there till closing time
[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
[02:29.87]Ten cents a dance
[02:32.41]Pansys and rough guys
[02:34.83]Tough guys who tear my gown
[02:39.82]Seven to midnight I hear drums
[02:44.64]Loudly the saxaphone blows
[02:49.37]Trumpets are breaking my eardrums
[02:54.31]Customers crush my toes
[02:59.49]Sometimes I think I've found my hero
[03:04.50]But it's a queer romance
[03:09.21]All that you need is a ticket
[03:14.41]Come on big boy
[03:17.66]Ten cents a dance