Broadway Baby

I'm just a Broadway baby

Walkin' off my tired feet

Poundin' Forty-second Street

To be in a show

Broadway baby

Learnin' how to sing and dance

Waitin' for my one big chance

To be in a show

Gee, I'd like to be

On some marquee

All twinklin' 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

Say, Mr. Producer

I'm talkin' 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

Slavin' at the five and ten

Dreamin' of the great day when

I'll be in a show

Broadway baby

Makin' rounds all afternoon

Eatin' at a greasy spoon

To save on my dough

At my tiny flat

There's just my cat

A bed and a chair

Still, I'll stick it till

I'm on the bill

All over Times Square

Someday, maybe

If I stick it long enough

I can get to strut my stuff

Workin' for a nice man

Like a Ziegfeld or a Weissman

In a great big Broadway show