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She gets too hungry for dinner at eight

She likes the theatre and never comes late

She never bothers with people she hates

That's why the lady is a tramp

Doesn't like crapgames with barons or earls

Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls

Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls

That's why the lady is a tramp

She like the free fresh wind in her hair, life without care

She's broke and it's oke

Hates California, it's cold and it's damp

That's why the lady is a tramp

She gets too hungry to wait for dinner at eight

She loves the theatre, but never comes late

She'd never bother with people she'd hate

That's why the lady is a tramp

She'll have no crapgames with sharpies and frogs

And she won't go to Harlem in Lincolns or Fords

And she won't dish the dirt with the rest of the broads

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 oke

Hates California, it's so cold and so damp

That's why the lady. that's why the lady

That's why the lady is a tramp

The Lady is a Tramp

Morgan Chesley

The song's origins

1937

A Rodger and Hart's showtune

"

Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls

Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls

"

Pokes fun at 1930s New York high life

Sinatra's version

  • Shorter
  • Variations on chorus
  • 1950s

Voice

  • Irony
  • Praising a high class woman who doesn't live up to her stereotypes

Satirizes high-class living

Rhyme scheme varies a little as the song progresses

Describes a woman with her own priorities

Audience

First two stanzas are regular- AAAB, CCCB

Every verse ends in "That's why the lady is a tramp"

Rhyme

Imagery

Invokes images of glamour and high living

Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls

"

Irony

The song uses irony to praise a woman with her priorities in line

"Tramp"...

..."crapgames"...

Words, allusions and comparisons

..."sharpies and frogs"...

Allusions

Suggests that women of high society live by silly rules...

Eating dinner late

"She gets too hungry for dinner at eight

She likes the theatre and never comes late

She never bothers with people she hates"

Being "fashionably late"

Bothering with people they hate

Paraphrased

She'll have no crapgames with sharpies and frogs

And she won't go to Harlem in Lincolns or Fords

And she won't dish the dirt with the rest of the broads

That's why the lady is a tramp

She won't play boring card games people who are rude and cheat

She won't show off her expensive cars in a poor part of town

She won't gossip with the other fancy ladies

That's why she's regarded as a crude woman

Theme

This lady is awesome even though her peers call her a tramp, because she doesn't subscribe to society's material ways, and is herself even when that's not what's "in".

The song...

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References

  • Sinatra, N. (2005) "The Lady is a Tramp" from http://sinatrafamily.com/forum/frank-sinatra-8/can-someone-explain-lyrics-lady-tramp-10750/
  • Burke, S. (2008) "The Lady is a Tramp" from http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/franksinatra/theladyisatramp.html

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