You Gotta Get a Gimmick - Bette Midler

Mazeppa

You can pull all the stops out

Till they call the cops out

Grind your behind till you’re bend

But you gotta get a gimmick

If you wanna get a hand

You can sacrifice your sacharo

Working in the back row

Bump in a dump till you’re dead

Kid you gotta have a gimmick

If you wanna get ahead

You can uh… You can uh…

You can uh… uh…uh…

That’s how Burlesque was born

So I uh… and I uh…

And I uh… uh…uh…

But I do it with a horn…

Once I was a Schleppa

Now I’m Miss Mazzeppa

With my revolution in dance

You gotta have a gimmick

If you wanna have a chance!

Electra

She can uh… She can uh…

She can uh… uh…uh…

They’ll never make her pitch

Me, I uh… and I uh…

And I uh… uh…uh…

But I do it with a switch

I’m electrifying

And I ain’t even trying

I never had to sweat to get paid

'Cause if you got a gimmick

Gypsy girl, you got it made

Tessie Tura

All them uh and then uh…

And that uh… uh…uh…

Ain’t gonna spell success

Me, I uh… and I uh…

And I uh… uh…uh…

But I do it with finesse

Lady Tura is so much more then purer

Than all them other ladies because-

You gotta get a gimmick

If you wanna get applause

ALL

Do something special

Anything special

And you’ll get better because

Come on and just do mimic

When you gotta gimmick

Take a look how different we are!

Electra

If you wanna make it

Twinkle while you shake it

Tura

If you wanna grind it

Wait till you refined it

Mazeppa

If you wanna stump it

Bump it with a trumpet!

ALL

Get yourself a gimmick and you too

Can be a star!