Tottie The Queen Of The Footlights 1910

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Feb 2008
2008

You may talk about your girls in swell society,
girls who live along Fifth Avenue,
Lovely girls there are no doubt a great variety,
whose bank accounts are large and blood is blue.
But the girl who sets the chappies all a talking
and o'er their hearts and fortunes holds full sway,
is not a millonairess, a Countess
or an heiress, you'll find her in the chorus on Broadway.

She's Tottie the Queen of the chorus,
she's Tottie the hit of Broadway,
in her auto you may see her speeding
around Central Park any day.
Her diamonds are of the first water,
her home is the Pizza Hotel,
the johnnies are dotty,
about little Tottie,
Oh! Tottie the Broadway Belle,
Oh yes! dear Tottie the Broadway Belle.

She's Tottie the Queen of the chorus,
she's Tottie the hit of Broadway,
in her auto you may see her speeding
around Central Park any day.
Her diamonds are of the first water,
her home is the Pizza Hotel,
the johnnies are dotty,
about little Tottie,
Oh! Tottie the Broadway Belle,
Oh yes! dear Tottie the Broadway Belle.

You may read about her in the daily papers,
her life seems nothing but a rosy dream.
For they publish all her escapades and capers,
but things are very seldom what they seem.
In the program she is Vera Montmorency
or some other name that sounds as well as that,
her real name's not so fancy,
is just plain Maime Clancy,
her home is up in Harlem in a flat.

She's Tottie the Queen of the chorus,
she's Tottie the hit of Broadway,
in her auto you may see her speeding
around Central Park any day.
Her diamonds are of the first water,
her home is the Pizza Hotel,
the johnnies are dotty,
about little Tottie,
Oh! Tottie the Broadway Belle,
Oh yes! dear Tottie the Broadway Belle.

She's Tottie the Queen of the chorus,
she's Tottie the hit of Broadway,
in her auto you may see her speeding
around Central Park any day.
Her diamonds are of the first water,
her home is the Pizza Hotel,
the johnnies are dotty,
about little Tottie,
Oh! Tottie the Broadway Belle,
Oh yes! dear Tottie the Broadway Belle.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Tottie The Queen Of The Footlights 1910
as sung in Jesse Lasky's 'At The Waldorf'
Music by Frank H.Grey
Lyrics by Percy Chapman
© MCMX by Leo Feist  -  New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 22 February 2008 at 14.47
in association with Doug Grierson
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