The Strip Lyrics > Gypsy

M.C.
Wichita's, one and only burlesque theater, presents:

Gypsy
Mama...

M.C.
Miss Gypsy Rose Lee

Mazeppa
Gypsy Rose Louise

Gypsy
Let me entertain you
Let me make you smile

Momma Rose
Sing out, Louise!

Gypsy
Let me do a few tricks
Some old and then some new tricks
I'm very versatile
And if you're real good
I'll make you feel good
I'd want your spirits to climb
So let me entertain you
We'll have a real good time,
Yes sir!
We'll have...
A real good time!

Theater Manager
Do something!

Momma Rose
Dip. Dip.

Theater Manager
Take something off!

Gypsy
Momma!

Momma Rose
A ... glove! Give 'em a glove!
Say something!

Gypsy
Hello! Hello...everybody!
My name is Gypsy Rose Lee... What's yours?
Sir, Mr. Conductor, if you please!
So, let me entertain you...
And we'll have a real good time, yes, sir!
We'll have...
A real good time!

M.C.
The ole Hembrum Theater of Philadelphia...the city of brotherly love...brings all of you brothers
a Liberty Bell you'll want to ring and ring and ring!

Gypsy
Let me entertaion you
Let me make you smile
I'm beginning to like this...
Oh, I like that.
I think I'll do that again.

My mother, who got me into this business,
always told me make them beg for more and then...don't give it to them,
but I'm not my mother!
So if you beg for more,
I'll give it to ya.
And we'll have a real good...beg.


M.C.
And now, ladies and gentlemen Minsky's well famous Burlesque
takes great pride and pleasure in presenting in her personal flesh the one and only,
the now and forever, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee and our salute to the Garden of Eden!

Gypsy
Pick up your apples girls and back to the trees!
Bon soir, monsieur et monsieur!
Je m'appelle Gypsy Rose Lee
Et je suis dans le jardin de ma mere et Minksy.
And that concludes my entire performance in French,
I've been too busy learning Greek
Some men accused me of being an ecdysiast
Do you know what that means? Do you?
Do you? Oh, you don't!
He's embarrassed!
Don't be embarrassed... I like men without hair!
Don't worry fellas I know you're up there and up there you know what ecdysiast means.
An ecdysiast is one who or that which
Sheds its skin in vulgar parlors: a stripper
But I'm not a stripper!
At these prices I'm an ecdysiast!
And if you're real good
I'll make you feel good
I want you spirit to climb
Let me entertain you
And well have a real good time, yes, sir!
We'll have...
A real good time!

[Thanks to Ace for lyrics]
Last Update: June, 10th 2013