Second-Hand Rose

Grant Clarke, James F. Hanley.

I’m wearing second-hand hats,
Second-hand clothes,
That’s why they call me
Second-hand Rose.

Even our piano in the parlor,
Father bought for ten cents
On the dollar.

Second-hand pearls,
I’m wearing second-hand curls,
I never get a single thing
That’s new.

Even Jake the plumber,
He’s the man I adore,
He had the nerve to tell me
He’s been married before.

Ev’ry one knows that I’m just
Second-hand Rose,
From Second Avenue.