Dames, dames, dames, dames
Dames, dames, dames, dames
Dames, dames, dames, dames
Dames, dames, dames, dames

What do I care for a dame
What do I care for a dame
Every old dame is the same
Every hooky dame is the same

I got a future, a rosy future
You can be sure I'll be top.
I'm independent, I'm no defendant
I'll own a nightclub that's tops
I'll be in with the cops.

What do I care for the skirts
What do I care for the skirts
I'll make them pay till it hurts
Let them put up till it hurts

I'm gonna own a nightclub;
It's gonna be the right club.
For the swell gentry
It's elementary
I'll wear top hat and cane
In Chez Joey
They'll pay Joey
The gay Joey
I can see it plain

And the simple secret of the plot
Is just to tell them that I love you, alot
Then the world discovers
As my book ends
How to make two lovers of friends.
