Ute Lemper - I'm A Vamp lyrics

rate me

y bed belonged to Pompadour

Like Lulu I have bright red hair

I dance as well as Salome

And treat my Baptists just as fair

I wear Mata Hari's dress

The ring of Marie Antoinette

The fairest Helen wore this corset

To a gala Trojan fête

I am the poison of the Borgias

I'm a witch like Joan of Arc

I wear the stockings of Dubarry

Bathe in coffins for a lark

I am a vamp, I am a vamp

Half woman, half beast

I bite my men and suck them dry

And then I bake them in a pie

I am a vamp, I am a vamp

That's all I can do

I'm not mild-mannered like you

And oh no and oh no

My passion takes over and off I go

I should really be kept in a zoo

All that's wild and weird and crazy

I have been known to collect

I have Klemperer's piano

And the cap of Bertolt Brecht

I've got Mata Hari's secrets

Wally Simpson's amethyst

In a frame up on my wall

Hangs a Valentino kiss

It's true that some of my collections

I have found in other's trash

Like the Weimar constitution

Also Hitler's first moustache

I am a vamp, etc.

I have a prince to write my letters

Ev'ry servant is a count

At the stables King Alfonso

Helps me get astride my mount

Thomas Mann gives me a facial

Using Garbo's beauty creams

I'm sung to sleep by Richard Tauber

The Prince of Wales is in my dreams

Today Von Sternberg called and offered

Me a stunning leading role

Once I'm a star he'll start to worship me

And then I'll eat him whole

I am vamp, etc.