Lyrics You Gotta Have a Gimmick - Milton Rosenstock, Faith Dane, Jule Styne

You Gotta Have a Gimmick

Mazeppa
You can pull all the stops out
Till they call the cops out
Grind your behind till you’re bend
But you gotta get a gimmick
If you wanna get a hand
You can sacrifice your sacharo
Working in the back row
Bump in a dump till you’re dead
Kid you gotta have a gimmick
If you wanna get ahead
You can uh… You can uh…
You can uh… uh…uh…
That’s how Burlesque was born
So I uh… and I uh…
And I uh… uh…uh…
But I do it with a horn…
Once I was a Schleppa
Now I’m Miss Mazzeppa
With my revolution in dance
You gotta have a gimmick
If you wanna have a chance!
Electra
She can uh… She can uh…
She can uh… uh…uh…
They’ll never make her pitch
Me, I uh… and I uh…
And I uh… uh…uh…
But I do it with a switch
I’m electrifying
And I ain’t even trying
I never had to sweat to get paid
'Cause if you got a gimmick
Gypsy girl, you got it made
Tessie Tura
All them uh and then uh…
And that uh… uh…uh…
Ain’t gonna spell success
Me, I uh… and I uh…
And I uh… uh…uh…
But I do it with finesse
Lady Tura is so much more then purer
Than all them other ladies because-
You gotta get a gimmick
If you wanna get applause
ALL
Do something special
Anything special
And you’ll get better because
Come on and just do mimic
When you gotta gimmick
Take a look how different we are!
Electra
If you wanna make it
Twinkle while you shake it
Tura
If you wanna grind it
Wait till you refined it
Mazeppa
If you wanna stump it
Bump it with a trumpet!
ALL
Get yourself a gimmick and you too
Can be a star!