Black Market (From "A Foreign Affair") - Marlene Dietrich

Black Market

Sneak around the corner

Black Market

Peek around the corner

Come!

I’ll show you things you cannot get elsewhere

Come!

Make with the offers and you’ll get your share

Black Market

Laces for the missis, chewing gum for kisses.

Got some broken down ideals?

Like wedding rings?

Sh!

Tiptoe.

Trade your things.

I’ll trade you for your candy

Some georgeous merchandise

My camera.

It’s a dandy

Six by nine — just your size

You want my porcellain figure?

A watch?

A submarine?

A Rembrandt?

Salami?

Black lingerie from Wien?

I’ll sell my goods

Behind the screen.

No ceiling, no feeling.

A very smooth routine

You buy my goods, and boy my goods are keen.

You like my first edition?

It’s yours, that’s how I am.

A simple definition

You take art, I take spam.

To you for your «K» ration: my passion and maybe

An inkling, a twinkling or real sympathy

I’m selling out — take all I’ve got!

Ambitions!

Convictions!

The works!

Why not?

Enjoy my goods, for boy my goods

Are hot