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"The Lady Is a Tramp" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms, in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green. This song is a spoof of New York high society and its strict etiquette (the first line of the verse is " I get too hungry for dinner at eight ...") and phony social pretensions.
As for the meaning of the word, note that the song lyrics repeatedly reference traveling ("hobohemia", "hitched and hiked"). Then again, "tramp" as "prostitute" is attested from 1922, so that meaning might also have been brought to mind by use of the word at the time the play was written; perhaps calling the woman a tramp is a way of hiding an ...
"Tianya" (Chinese: 天涯) literally means "sky horizon" that carries the meaning of "at the end of the world", but within the context of the song it also has the figurative meanings of "someone separated by a long distance" from the phrase "tianya haijiao" (天涯海角, "ends of the world", used in a Tang dynasty poem that describes someone ...
A jiāngshī (simplified Chinese: 僵尸; traditional Chinese: 殭屍; pinyin: jiāngshī; Jyutping: goeng1 si1), also known as a Chinese hopping vampire, [1] is a type of undead creature or reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore.
The opening lines stake the author's or singer's claims for Louisville Lou's superiority as a vamp or femme fatale: "History is full of love-makin' champs / But if you want a brand new thrill, come and meet the vamp of Louisville" while enticing the listener further about Louisville Lou's prowess - "Until you're vamped by this brunette…you ain't had no vampin' yet."
"Jump Down, Spin Around (Pick A Dress O' Cotton)" lyrics by Allan Sherman - one of the earliest songs that mention her: "See how this one looks on me, Just like Jackie Kennedy." "La, La, La" (Excuse me Miss Again)" by Jay-Z - Kennedy is referenced in the lyrics "The Lady is a Vamp" by The Spice Girls - Kennedy is referenced in the lyrics
Babes in Arms is a 1937 coming-of-age musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and book by Rodgers and Hart.It concerns a group of small-town Long Island teenagers who put on a show to avoid being sent to a work farm by the town sheriff.
Femmes fatales were standard fare in hardboiled crime stories in 1930s pulp fiction.. A femme fatale (/ ˌ f ɛ m f ə ˈ t æ l,-ˈ t ɑː l / FEM fə-TA(H)L, French: [fam fatal]; lit. ' fatal woman '), sometimes called a maneater, [1] Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising ...