The Lady Is A Tramp
Music & Words:
Richard Rogers & Lorenz
Hart
(From "Babes In Arms
(1937))
I've given the "female
first-person" version of the words.
If you want to sing it in the third-person - a la Frank Sinatra - change "I" to "she"
and pluralize the verbs accordingly.
I'm still looking for the correct chords to the intro if anyone has
them!
INTRO:
I have wined & dined on
Mulligan stew & never wished for turkey.
As I hitched & hiked &
grifted too, from Maine to Albuquerque.
Alas, I missed the Beaux Arts
Ball & what is twice as sad,
I was never at a party where
they honored Noel Ca-ad.
But social circles spin too
fast for me. My
"hobohemia" is the place to be.
C Cm7
Dm7
G7 C Cm7 Dm7 G7
I get too hungry for dinner at
eight; I like the theater, but never come late.
C CM7 C9 F Fm C C/B F G7
C Am G#7 G7
I never bother with people I
hate; that's why the lady is a tramp.
I don't go to crap games with
Barons & Earls, won't go to Harlem in ermine & pearls,
Won't dish the dirt with the
rest of the girls, that's why the lady is a tramp.
[alt: IÕll have no crap games with sharpies
or frauds
WonÕt go to Harlem in
Lincolns or Fords
WonÕt dish the dirt with
the rest of the broads; that's why the lady is a tramp]
BRIDGE 1:
FM7 G7 Em7 Am Dm7 G C A7 D7 G7
I like the free, fresh wind in
my hair, life without care; I'm broke, it's oke!
C Cm7 Dm7
E7 Am Am7 D7 G7 C
Am D7 G7
Hate California, it's cold and
it's damp, that's why the lady is a tramp!
I go to Coney, the beach is
divine; I go to ballgames, the bleachers are fine.
I follow Winchell & read
every line; that is why the lady is a tramp!
I like a prizefight that isn't
a fake; I love the rowing on Central Park lake.
I go to Opera & stay
wide-awake; that's why the lady is a tramp!
BRIDGE 2:
I like the green grass under
my shoes. What can I lose? I'm flat, that's that!
C Cm7 Dm7 E7 Am7
D7 G
I am alone when I lower my
lamp; that's why the lady,
G Bm7(b5) E7
Am
D7 Fdim G C Am D7 G7 C
That's why the lady, that's
why the lady---- is a tramp!