The Lady Is a Tramp

"The Lady Is a Tramp" is a show tune and pop standard from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms, in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green. The song's use of the pejorative "tramp" doesn't literally mean the lady is a prostitute, but instead sarcastically spoofs 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.