Secondhand Rose

"Father has a business strictly secondhand

Everything from toothpicks to a baby grand

Stuff in our apartment came from father's store

Even things I'm wearing someone wore before

It's no wonder that I feel abused

I never get a thing that ain't been used

 

I’m wearing secondhand hats

Secondhand clothes

That’s why they call me

Secondhand Rose

Even our piano in the parlor

Father bought for ten cents on the dollar

Secondhand curls

I'm wearing secondhand pearls

I never get a single thing that's new

Even Jake the Plummer, he's the man I adore

Had the nerve to tell me he's been married before!

Everyone knows that I'm just Secondhand Rose

From Second Avenue..." Hanley & Clarke

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