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Ten Cents a Dance
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Anita O'Day
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I work at the Palace Ballroom, but,
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gee that Palace is cheap;
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When I get back to my chilly hall room
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I'm much too tired to sleep.
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I'm one of those lady teachers,
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a beautiful hostess, you know,
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the kind the Palace features
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for only a dime a throw.
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Ten cents a dance
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that's what they pay me,
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gosh, how they weigh me down!
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Ten cents a dance
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pansies and rough guys,
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tough guys who tear my gown!
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Seven to midnight I hear drums.
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Loudly the saxophone blows.
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Trumpets are tearing my eardrums.
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Customers crush my toes.
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Sometime I think
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I've found my hero,
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but it's a queer romance.
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All that you need is a ticket,
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Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance.
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Fighters and sailors and bowlegged tailors
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can pay for their ticket and rent me!
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Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbors
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are sweethearts my good luck has sent me.
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Though I've a chorus of elderly beaux,
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stockings are porous with holes at the toes.
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I'm here till closing time,
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Dance and be merry, it's only a dime.
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Sometime I think
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I've found my hero,
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But it's a queer romance.
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All that you need is a ticket.
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Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance.
Ruth Etting - Ten Cents a Dance - 1930
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