Lydia, the Tattooed Lady
Bobby Short

Lydia, oh! Lydia, say have you met Lydia
Oh! Lydia, the tattooed lady
She has eyes that folks adore so
And a torso even more so
Lydia, oh! Lydia, that Encyclopedia
Oh! Lydia, the Queen of tattoo
On her back is the Battle of Waterloo
Beside it the Wreck of the Hesperus too
And proudly above the waves
The Red, White and Blue
You can learn a lot from Lydia

She can give you a view of the world
In tattoo if you step up and tell her where
For a dime you can see Kankakee or Paree
Or Washington crossing the Delaware

Oh! Lydia, oh! Lydia, say have you met Lydia
Oh! Lydia, the tattooed lady
When her muscles start relaxin'
Up the hill comes Andrew Jackson
Lydia, oh! Lydia, that Encyclopedia
Oh! Lydia, the champ of them all

For two bits she will do a Mazurka in Jazz
With a view of Niag'ra that no artist has
And on a clear day you can see Alcatraz
You can learn a lot from Lydia.
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Come along and see Buff'lo Bill with his lasso
Just a little classic by Mendel Picasso
Here is Captain Spaulding exploring the Amazon
And Godiva, but with her pajamas on
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Here is Grover Whalen unveilin' the Trylon
Over on the west coast we have Treasure Islan'
Here's Nijinsky a doin' the Rhumba
Here's her Social Security numba
La la la La la la La la la La la la

Lydia, oh! Lydia, say have you met Lydia
Oh! Lydia, the champ of them all
She once swept an Admiral clear off his feet
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat
And now the old boy's in command of the fleet


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  A Foggy Day   A Room With a View   Ace In The Hole   After You, Who?   All Of You (Live)   Any Little Fish   As Long as I Live   Autumn in New York   Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered   Black and Blue   Body and Soul   Bojangles of Harlem   But Not for Me   By Candlelight   Bye Bye Blackbird   Dinah   Do I Love You?   Dream Dancing   Easy Come, Easy Go   Easy to Love   Embraceable You   For All We Know   For All We Know (Live)   From Now On   From This Moment On   Gimme a Pig Foot (And a Bottle of Beer)   Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)   Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer   Glad to Be Unhappy   Have You Met Miss Jones?   Hey Look Me Over   Honeysuckle Rose   Hooray for Love   How Can You Face Me?   I Concentrate on You   I Get a Kick Out of You   I Happen To Like New York (Live)   I Left My Hat in Haiti   I Like the Likes of You   I Like the Likes of You [From Ziegfield Follies of...   I Love You, Samantha   I Wish I Were in Love Again   I'll Wind (Live)   I'm in Love Again   If Dreams Come True   If Love Were All   Ill Wind [From Cotton Club Parade of 1934]   In the Still of the Night   It Amazes Me   Laugh, Clown, Laugh   Let There Be Love   Losing My Mind   Losing My Mind (Reprise)   Losing My Mind [From Follies]   Love Is Here to Stay   Love Walked In   Lydia the Tatooed Lady   Lydia the Tattooed Lady   Lydia, the Tatooed Lady   Manhattan   Maybe   Miss Brown To You (Live)   Miss Otis Regrets (Live)   Moments Like This   Mood Indigo   My Romance   Nagasaki   Never Again   Never Gonna Dance   Never Gonna Dance   Night and Day   Nina   Nobody Else But Me   Not a Care in the World   On the Amazon   On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Live)   Our Love Is Here to Stay   Over and Over Again   Paradise   Poor Little Rich Girl   Porgy and Bess Medley: Clara/Oh, de Lawd Shake de ...   Rap Tap on Wood   Real Live Girl [From Little Me]   Rules of the Road   Sand in My Shoes   Satin Doll   Shall We Dance?   Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear   So Near and Yet So Far   Someday I'll Find You   Spring Is Here   St. Louis Blues   Street of Dreams   Tea for Two   Tenderly   The Best Is Yet to Come   The Carioca   The East Side of Heaven   The Lorelei   The Most Beautiful Girl in the World   The Most Beautiful Girl in the World [*]   The Nearness of You   The Rules of the Road   The Sidewalks of New York   Tiger Rag   Too Marvelous for Words   When a Woman Loves a Man   When A Woman Loves A Man (Live)   Where or When   Whoever You Are I Love You   Witchcraft   You Do Something to Me   You Make Me Feel So Young   You Took Advantage of Me   You've Got That Thing

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