Zip Songtext

von Rita Hayworth

In Paris I headlined the follies
I was doll of all the dollies
Admired by the great Stradinsky
But my greatest achievement, in the high of my career
Was the time I starred for... Minsky
You're looking at a former stripper
But before I unzip ONE zipper
I want you to know that I was quite the artist
But... of the intelectual kind

What was I thinking while I worked in my desk?
While I worked this thoughts kept crossing my mind

[Refrain: 1]

Zip! Walter Lippman wasn't brilliant today
Zip! Will the giants ever take it away?
Zip! I was reading Schopenhauer last night
Zip! and I think that Schopenhauer was right.

I don't want to see Zarina
I don't want to meet Cobina
Zip! I'm an intellectual
I don't like a deep contralto
Or a man whose voice is alto
Zip! I'm an heterosexual.
Zip! I took intellect to master my art
Zip! Who the hell is Margie Hart

[Refrain: 2]
Zip! I consider Dali's paintings passé
Zip! Can they make the Metropolitan pay?
Zip! English people don't say clerk, they say clark
Zip! Anybody who says clark is a jark!

I have read the great Kabala
And I simply worship Allah
Zip! I am suck a mystic.
I don't care for Whistler's Mother
Charlie's Aunt and Shuber's brother
Zip! I'm misogynists
Zip! My intelligence is guiding my hand
Zip! who the hell is Sally Rand?