" I work at the palace ballroom, but gee that palace is cheap
When I get back to my chilly hall room I'm much too 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.
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 breaking my eardrums. Customers crush my toes.
Someimtes I think, I've found my hero But it's no clear romance.
All that you need is a ticket, Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance.
Fighters and sailors and bowlegged tailors Can pay for their ticket and rent me
Butchers and barbers and rats from the harbors Are sweethearts my good luck has sent me.
Though I've a chorous of elderly beaux, Stockings are porous with holes in the toes.
I'm here till closing time, Dance and be merry, it's only a dime.
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
Sometimes I think I've found my hero, but it's no clear romance.
All that you need is a ticket,
Come on, big boy, ten cents a dance."
The system; was broken, is still broken. "Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with their fingers crossed"
one hundred years, two hundred years, three hundr
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