Lyrics by: Lorenz Hart
Music by: Richard Rodgers
Arranged By: Nelson Riddle – Nelson Riddle – Neal Hefti
& Billy May - Billy Byers – Billy Byers
From the Album: The Reprise Collection, Disc 4
From the Show: Babes In Arms (1937)
Label: Capitol – Columbia – Reprise – Reprise –
Capitol
Recorded: 11/26/56 – 5/23/57 – 6/5/62 – 10/13/74 (live
in NY) – 7/1/93 (with Luther Vandross)
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She gets too hungry for dinner
at eight
She likes the theater and never
comes late
She never bothers with people
she'd hate
That's why the lady is a tramp
Doesn't like crap games with
barons or earls
Won't go to Harlem in ermine and
pearls
Won't dish the dirt with the
rest of the girls
That's why the lady is a tramp
She likes the free, fresh wind
in her hair
Life without care
She's broke, and it's
*"oke"*
Hates California, it's cold and
it's damp
That's why the lady is a tramp
She gets too hungry to wait for
dinner at eight
She loves the theater but never
comes late
She'd never bother with people
she'd hate
That's why the lady is a tramp
She'll have no crap games with
sharpies and frauds
And she won't go to Harlem in
Lincolns or Fords
And she won't dish the dirt with
the rest of the broads
That's why the lady is a tramp
She'd love the free, fresh wind
in her hair
Life without care
She's broke, but it's
*"oke"*
Hates California, it's so cold
and so damp
That's why the lady
That's why the lady
That's why the lady is a tramp