Lydia the Tattooed Lady Stock Exchange by commandeering a microphone and singing the song before telling jokes for 15 minutes, during which time traders suspended their work to watch him perform. Lydia the Tattooed Lady "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" is a 1939 song written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen. It first appeared in the Marx Brothers movie "At the Circus" (1939) and became one of Groucho Marx's signature tunes. The complex lyrics by Harburg – with clever rhymes such as "Lydia/encyclopedia" and "Amazon/pajamas on" – were inspired by W. S. Gilbert. Harburg made many contemporary references to topical personalities such as Grover Whalen,
Tattooed Lady performers of yesteryear but now what one may consider, the everyday woman; mothers, students and even career oriented professionals, but still there is a stigma there. These career-oriented women expressed strong possession support for the tattoo from their significant person and friends, not as much support from mothers, siblings and children. Fathers of the tattooed women, physicians and registered nursing with whom the subjects came into contact, and the general public were the least likely to voice the acceptance of the tattoo. Due to the continued stigma of women with tattoos, women tend to determine the placement of their tattoos