You Gotta Get a Gimmick

You can pull all the stops out, till they call the cops out.
Grind your behind till you're banned.
But you gotta get a gimmick, if you wanna get ahead!
You can sacrifice your sachro, working in the back row.
Bump in a dump till you're dead.
Kid, you gotta get 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 schlepper, now I'm Miss Mazeppa with my revolution in dance.
You gotta have a gimmick if you wanna have a chance.
She can uh, she can uh, she can uh uh uh.
It'll never make her rich.
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 have to sweat to get paid.
Cause if you got a gimmick, gypsy girl you got it made.
All the uh, and the uh, and the 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.
(Violin Solo)
Dressy Tessie Turra is so much more demur-er than all them other ladies because you gotta get a gimmick if you wanna get applause!
(Medley)
Do something special
Anything special
And you'll get better because...
(All)
You're more than just a mimick, when ya got a gimmick.
Take a look how different we are!
(Bad horn playing)
If you wanna make it, twinkle while you shake it.
If you wanna grind it, wait till you've refined it.
If you wanna bump it, bump it with a trumpet!
Get yourself a gimmick, and you, too, can be a star!