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So you wanna join the Follies
Leave your ordinary life behind
Become a Ziegfeld dolly
And dance a can-can line
You have got a pretty face
And you can hold a little tune
But there is more to being a star
Than sitting on the moon

There will be loss and pain
But without risk there is no gain
Rely on skill and charm, not some guy with a hat-on
There are better ways to reach… fame!

Can’t you see this girl is thirsty?
Someone get her drink, and quick
If you didn’t know, this is Olive Thomas
Ziggy’s latest pick
She the contest winner of
New York’s Beautiful-est Girl
Every artist wants to paint her
Dressed only in diamonds and pearl

There will be loss and pain
But without risk there is no gain
Rely on skill and charm, not some guy with a hat-on
There are better ways to reach… fame!

Here’s a tragic example
Of a showgirl who had it all
Now down and out on skid row
That’s a pretty long way to fall
She was once a Broadway starlet
Life was but a dream
Now she’s hawking chachkies
And chorus girl cold cream

She met a wealthy banker with six kids and a wife
He showered her with gifts and all the comforts of life
She didn’t have a clue he was a gambling man
Now she’s busted flat and selling all she can
She says, there’s work waiting for me
If I can just get to Paris

The showgirls make a solemn pact
To meet at the diner in twenty years or so
They’ll be rich and famous in fact
Everyone will know their name

There will be loss and pain
But without risk there is no gain
Rely on skill and charm, not some guy with a hat-on
There are better ways to reach… fame!

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from To The Depth of Jazz, released September 8, 2015
by Billy Butler

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