I love Sinatra’s version of The Lady is a Tramp.” I love the kind of girl and person it represents. When I told my daughter that the song I’d recommend for her Debutante dance be that song it puzzled her and everyone else.” Why would you choose that one daddy. I’m a tramp?” Well…read and listen more closely. Then it dawned on me that another favorite of mine was “Meet Virginia” and for the very same reason.
On one of the first dates with my wife at about eleven at night and before dessert, she ordered coffee. I was a junior in college and had never heard of anyone having coffee in the middle of the night and before dessert. I know it’s done, I am saying to me at the time it was quirky. I liked it. A “tangential kinda person.” “Edgy” ” I don’t roll that way” ” Beat of a different drum” “I do what in the hell I want to do” ” Comfortable in My skin”
The songs represent the very same person….”Hates California (of course everybody else loves it-an Emperor’s clothing concept you see)… it’s too cold and it’s damp…..that’s why the lady’s a tramp.” Too good.
I took my mother and daughter to see Frank on two occasions in the 90’s and it was something else to see age groups of all ages from my mother to college kids (that got it) dancing in the aisles and just lovin it.
I hope that “The Tramp” will be the song my daughter will let us dance to at her wedding and I hope to practice with her in advance so that the dance will do homage to the song and the event. I mean dance to it just like my mother danced to it. I can see her in New York, in the 40’s, in a Coast Guard uniform, in love, full of life and with the hopeful and fruitful prospect of the life ahead.
Once again mom….thanks for teaching me Frank.
She doesn’t own a dress
Her hair is always a mess,
You catch her stealin’ she won’t confess
She’s Beautiful.
Smokes a pack a day, but wait,
That’s me, but anyway
She doesn’t care a thing
About that hair,
She thinks I’m beautiful
Meet Virginia
She never compromises,
Loves babies and surprises,
wears high heels when
she exercises
Ain’t it beautiful
Meet Virginia
Well she wants to be the Queen
Then she thinks about her scene
Pulls her hair back as she screams
“I don’t really wanna be the Queen”
Daddy wrestles alligators
Mama works on carburetors
Her brother is a fine mediator
For the president
And here she is again on the phone
just like me hates to be alone
we just like to sit at home
and rip on the President
Meet Virginia, Mmmm…
Well she wants to live her life
Then she thinks about her life
Pulls her hair back, as she screams
“I don’t really wanna live this life”
She only drinks coffee at midnight
When the moment is not right
Her timing is quite, unusual
You see her confidence is tragic, but her
Intuition magic And the shape of her body?
Unusual
Meet Virgina I can’t wait to
Meet Virginia, yeah e yeah hey hey hey
Well she wants to be the queen and
then she thinks about her scene
Well she wants to live her life
then she thinks about her life
Pulls her hair back as she screams
“I don’t really wanna be the queen”
I, I don’t really wanna be the queen
I, I don’t really wanna be the queen
I, I don’t really wanna live this
The Lady is a Tramp
Writer(s): Rodgers/Hart
She gets too hungry, for dinner at eight
She loves the theater, but doesn’t come late
She’d never bother, with people she’d hate
That’s why the lady is a tramp
Doesn’t like crap games, with barons and earls
Won’t go to Harlem, in ermine and pearls
Won’t dish the dirt, with the rest of those girls
That’s why the lady is a tramp
She loves the free, fresh wind in her hair
Life without care
She’s broke, but it’s o’k
She hates California, it’s cold and it’s damp
That’s why the lady is a tramp
Doesn’t like dice games, with sharpies and frauds
Won’t go to Harlem, in Lincolns or Fords
Won’t dish the dirt, with the rest of those broads
That’s why the lady is a tramp
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