Vamping Rose 1921

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 23 Jan 2009
2009

There's a certain girlie,
she's a ghetto queen,
Cohen's daughter
have you caught her
dressed up all serene?
How she grabs the fellows
when she meets them out!
You can't help taking notice
someone's sure to shout,

Vamping Rose,
there she goes
in her fancy clothes!
Goodness me, can it be?
My, what class she shows!
When she flits to the Ritz
where she sits and sits,
not a bit like the Mile End Road
(where the gerkins come from.)
Jew'l'ry she'll wear
that's beyond compare,
looks all right
late at night
when the lights are there,
She don't care for a heart,
she just tears it apart,
that's why they call her
Vamping Rose.

Vamping Rose,
there she goes
in her fancy clothes!
And her shoes,
number twos
how they pinch her toes!
She's got style,
and a smile
you can see a mile,
for it shows off
her bright gold teeth
(so she's always smiling.)
She says that
she knows the Prince quite well,
knows the Prince?
Why, of course!
Prince of Wales Hotel.
She's got rouge on her cheeks
it's been on there for weeks,
that's why they call her
Vamping Rose.

What a voice for singing!
From her mouth it flows,
Mary Garden
beg your pardon
she can't sing like Rose,
when it comes to Op'ra
she learns ev'ry part.
Have you seen Tetrazzini?
Rose knows that by heart.

Vamping Rose,
there she goes
in her fancy clothes!
Goodness me, can it be?
My, what class she shows!
When she flits to the Ritz
where she sits and sits,
not a bit like the Mile End Road
(where the gerkins come from.)
Jew'l'ry she'll wear
that's beyond compare,
looks all right
late at night
when the lights are there,
She don't care for a heart,
she just tears it apart,
that's why they call her
Vamping Rose.

Vamping Rose,
there she goes
in her fancy clothes!
And her shoes,
number twos
how they pinch her toes!
She's got style,
and a smile
you can see a mile,
for it shows off
her bright gold teeth
(so she's always smiling.)
She says that
she knows the Prince quite well,
knows the Prince?
Why, of course!
Prince of Wales Hotel.
She's got rouge on her cheeks
it's been on there for weeks,
that's why they call her
Vamping Rose.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Vamping Rose 1921
Foxtrot
Music by Violinsky & Ira Schuster
Lyrics by Bert Hanlon & Ben Ryan
© 1921 by Leo Feist Inc. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 23 January 2009 at 16.23
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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