I Can Get It For You Wholesale soundtrack – Ballad Of The Garment Trade lyrics

The Ballad of the Garment Trade

If you don’t want to get nervous
Do yourself a great big service;
Stay away, please far, from Seventh Avenue!

You can lose your sense and reason
Guessing what style for next season.
Yes, the dress business will make a wreck of you!

It’s a battle fierce and grim
That depends on a lady’s whim.
What will Miss and Mrs. America’s answer be?

Will she say, with tossing head;
“In that rag I wouldn’t drop dead!”?
Or will she sigh “Yes! This dress is really me!”

On guessing what a dame will say;
A sheer impossibility!
These poor kids bravely work away
And try to build an industry.

How crazy, bold, and reckless
Can human beings be?

Hip! Hip! Hooray!
For the Garment Trade!
Give a cheer that will amuse our heroes, everyone!
Day after day they go undismayed
To the cockamamie job that must be done!

Off to the fray
On that brave crusade;
Gallant Ladies’ Garment Trade!
Go in health, Godspeed!
Indigestion’s breed;
Men and ulcers on parade!

What a business! What a sap-game!
It’s about as much a business as a crap game!
Snap, or zip, or hole, or button . . . ?
All we know is all the experts know from nothin’!

So that last line you got by with;
Coming right up is another you could die with!
If you’re right the dough could roll in.
If you’re not; you haven’t got a pot to sew in!

Off to the fray
On that grave crusade;
Gallant Ladies’ Garment Trade!
Go in health, Godspeed!
Indigestion’s breed;
Men and ulcers on parade!
What a business! What a sap-game!