Zip

In Paris I headlined the follies

I was doll of all the dollies

Admired by the great Stradinsky

But my greatest achievement, in the high of my career

Was the time I starred for... Minsky

You're looking at a former stripper

But before I unzip ONE zipper

I want you to know that I was quite the artist

But... of the intelectual kind

What was I thinking while I worked in my desk?

While I worked this thoughts kept crossing my mind

REFRAIN 1

Zip! Walter Lippman wasn't brilliant today

Zip! Will the giants ever take it away?

Zip! I was reading Schopenhauer last night

Zip! and I think that Schopenhauer was right.

I don't want to see Zarina

I don't want to meet Cobina

Zip! I'm an intellectual

I don't like a deep contralto

Or a man whose voice is alto

Zip! I'm an heterosexual.

Zip! I took intellect to master my art

Zip! Who the hell is Margie Hart

REFRAIN 2

Zip! I consider Dali's paintings passé

Zip! Can they make the Metropolitan pay?

Zip! English people don't say clerk, they say clark

Zip! Anybody who says clark is a jark!

I have read the great Kabala

And I simply worship Allah

Zip! I am suck a mystic.

I don't care for Whistler's Mother

Charlie's Aunt and Shuber's brother

Zip! I'm misogynists

Zip! My intelligence is guiding my hand

Zip! who the hell is Sally Rand?