In the 1915 revue
When you made your debut
The new amsterdam was buzzing with reports
Flo had found the prettiest girl in New York
Just out of four bad years of marriage in your teens
Now center stage of unlikely of american dreams
And when the clock strikes nine
We stand in chorus line
To bend and twirl
When the clock strikes two
Back to the dressing room
Ziegfeld girl
It's always clearer looking back
We all had hopes for you and jack
It seemed a picture perfect match
And after all the quarreling you always took him back
The things they implied
After that awful night
Would make your hair curl
Did you two have a fight?
Was it a suicide?
Ziegfeld girl
Being everybody's sweetheart takes a toll
Jackie and his jealousy grew harder to control
You needed time to think, you needed time to know
Paris in the summer beckons all the wayward souls
And when the memories
Come so fast and sweet
They blend and swirl
Was it a suicide?
Mercury bichloride
Ziegfeld girl