Second Hand Rose

Father has a business

Strictly second hand

Everything from toothpicks to a baby grand

Stuff in our apartment

Came from father apos

S store

Even things I apos

M wearing someone wore before

It apos

S no wonder that I feel abused

I never get a thing that ain apos

T been used

I apos

M wearing second hand hats

Second hand clothes

That apos

S why they call me Second Hand Rose

Even our piano in the parlor

Father bought for ten cents on the dollar

Second hand pearls

I apos

M wearing second hand curls

I never get a single thing that apos

S new

Even Jakie Cohen he apos

S the man I adore

Had the nerve to tell me he apos

D been married before

Everyone knows that I apos

M just Second Hand Rose

From Second Avenue

I apos

M wearing second hand shoes

Second hand hose

All the girls hand me their second hand beaus

Even my pajamas when I don them

Have somebody else apos

S apos

Nitials on them

Second hand rings

I apos

M sick of second hand things

I never get what other girlies do

Once while strolling through the Ritz

A woman got my goat

She nudged her friend and said

quot

Oh look there goes my last year apos

S coat quot

Everyone knows that I apos

M just Second Hand Rose

From Second Avenue