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  CHORUS  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  CHORUS  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  CHORUS  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------