10 cents a dance: taxidancer

"Taxidancer" (o "10 cents a dance")

Mercedes García Bravo

2007

Óleo/lienzo

VENDIDO

...Así ha acabado lo que empezó en agosto...

...Recreando mi cadena de violetas, abrí un volumen casi olvidado de los diarios de Anaïs Nin... y recordando a JUNE MILLER y la época en que trabajó como taxidancer... encontré esta canción

Ten Cents a Dance

Ella Fitzerald

Letra: Lorenz Hart,

Música: Richard Rodgers

VERSE

I work at the Palace Ballroom,

but, gee that Palace is cheap;

when I get back to my chilly hall room

I'm much to tired to sleep.

I'm one of those lady teachers,

a beautiful hostess, you know,

the kind the Palace features

for only a dime a throw.

REFRAIN

Ten cents a dance

that's what they pay me,

gosh, how they weigh me down!

Ten cents a dance

pansies and rough guys

tough guys who tear my gown!

Seven to midnight

I hear drums.

Loudly the saxophone blows.

Trumpets are tearing my eardrums.

Customers crush my toes.

Sometime I think I've found my hero,

but it's a queer romance.

All that you need is a ticket

Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance.

PATTER

Fighters and sailors and bowlegged tailors

can pay for their ticket and rent me!

Butchers and barbers and rats

from the harborsare sweet

hearts my good luck has send me.

Though I've a chorus of elderly beaux ,

stockings are porous with hole at the toes.

I'm here till closing time.

Dance and be merry, it's only a dime.

TAG

Sometime I think I've found my hero,

but it's a queer romance.

All that you need is a ticket

Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance.

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