Taxi Dancing Lyrics - Mellencamp John Cougar

Well, she started out to be a dancer 

She's gonna make her livin' dancin' in the Broadway shows 

SO she hitchhiked cross country from Pasaroba to the Big Red Apple 

Where your dreams are made and your debts must be paid on time 

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I'll hold you close taxi dancer 

And I'll listen to how you outgrew your dreams and how they faded away 

I'll hold you close taxi dancer 

And we'll pretend this floor is the Broadway stage 

Well, she wasn't used to livin' in the city 

So she took a job as a maid cleanin up at the Gramercy Park Hotel 

And all her auditions, they didn't turn out so pretty 

So she took a job dancin' at the bar down the street as well 

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Well, I don't know how long or how far her fortune did take her 

But I heard she sits alone drunk in a bar down on 42nd Street 

And sometimes an old butch will slip a quarter into the jukebox 

And she'll stagger to the bar and dance with that girl for free 

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