Broadway Baby

I'm just a Broadway baby

Walking off my tired feet

Pounding Forty-second Street

To be in a show, oh

Broadway baby

Learning how to sing and dance

Waiting for that one big chance

To be in a show, oh

Gee

I'd like to be

On some marquee

All twinkling lights

A spark

To pierce the dark

From Battery Park

To Washington Heights!

Someday, maybe

All my dreams will be repaid

Heck, I'd even play the maid

To be in a show

Hey, Mr. Producer

I'm talking to you, sir

I don't need a lot

Only what I got

Plus a tube of greasepaint and a follow-spot!

I'm a Broadway baby

Slaving at a five-and-ten

Dreaming of the great day when

I'll be in a show, oh

Broadway baby

Making rounds all afternoon

Eating at a greasy spoon

To save on my dough, oh

At

My tiny flat

There's just my cat

A bed and a chair

Still

I'll stick it till

I'm on a bill

All over Times Square!

Someday, maybe

If I stick it long enough

I may get to strut my stuff

Working for a nice man

Like a Ziegfeld or a Weismann

In a great big

Broadway show!