The Lady Is a Tramp

Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart

She gets too hungry for dinner at eight;
She likes the theater, but never comes late.
She never bothers with people she hates,
That’s why the lady is a tramp.

She don’t go to crap games with Barons and Earls,
Won’t go to Harlem in ermine and pearls,
Won’t dish the dirt like some of the girls —
That’s why the lady is a tramp.

Bridge:

She likes the free, fresh wind in her hair
Life without care; she’s broke, it’s oke.

Hates Cal-i-for — nia, it’s cold and it’s damp -
That’s why the lady is a tramp.

(Last time)

Hates Cal-i-for — nia, it’s cold and it’s damp -
That’s why the lady, that’s why the lady,
That’s why the lady is a tramp.

Recorded by Frank Sinatra
1957