Barbra Streisand Lyrics

Album: And Other Instruments

Second Hand Rose Lyrics

Father has a business strictly second hand

Everything from toothpicks to a baby grand

Stuff in our apartment came from father's store

Even things I'm wearing someone wore before

It's no wonder that I feel abused

I never get a thing that ain't been used

Even our piano in the parlor 

Father bought for ten cents on the dollar

Second hand curls

I'm sick of second hand pearls

I never get a single thing that's new

Even Jake the Plummer, he's the man I adore

He had the nerve to tell me he's been married before!

Everyone knows that I'm just Second hand Rose

From Second avenue

I'm wearing second hand hats

Second hand clothes

That's why they call me 

Second hand Rose I'm Wearing second hand hats

Second hand clothes

That's why they call me 

Second hand Rose

Even my pajamas when I don ‘em

Got somebody else's ‘nitials on ‘em

Everyone knows 

That I'm just Second hand Rose

From Second Avenue 


Even my pajamas when I don ‘em

Got somebody else's ‘nitials on ‘em

Everyone knows 

That I'm just Second hand Rose

From Second Avenue 


I'm wearing second hand clothes

Second hand hose

All the girls hand me their second hand beaus

Once when strolling through the Ritz a girl got my goat

She nudged her friend

And said "Oh look there goes my old fur coat"

Everyone knows that I'm just

Second hand Rose 

From Second Avenue

From Second Avenue NU!