Original Broadway Cast of Thoroughly Modern Millie - How the Other Half Lives lyrics

MISS DOROTHY: This is living! This is what I call living I've hungered for this day Since Heaven knows when Year after year with a secret yen All of my prayers, all my desire Ev'ry waking moment with my heart afire! Give me the meat without the gravy I'll take the oyster sans the pearl Pinching pennies, clipping coupons See a brand new world unfurl Let me brown bag all my lunches Try my hand at canned cuisine A Berlitz cla** I long to pa** How the other half How the other half lives! No fourteen-karat cronies, phonies Fair-weather friends I want an "on-the-dole" mate, soulmate Stormy-weather friends Pour me the milk but hold the honey Bring on those funny money woes Paying Paul by robbing Peter Layaway to buy my clothes Summer on the Isle of Coney Winter in Hell's Kitchenette I'll turn my dial to rank and file How the other half - MILLIE: How the other half lives! Poor? Not me, honey I don't want those money woes I'll marry Paul or Dave or Rob or Peter So I can buy my clothes at Saks Fifth Avenue Bergdorf Goodman too The privileged few plus you-know-who How the other half BOTH: How the other half lives! MILLIE: I'm on the way up! MISS DOROTHY: I'm on the way down! MILLIE: It's a good thing we met in the middle! MISS DOROTHY: Pour me the milk but hold the honey Bring on those funny money woes Paying Paul by robbing Peter Layaway to buy my clothes Summer on the Isle of Coney Winter in Hell's Kitchenette MILLIE (at the same time): Poor? Not me, honey I don't want those money woes I'll marry Paul or Dave or Rob or Peter So I can buy my clothes at Saks Fifth Avenue Bergdorf Goodman too MISS DOROTHY: A wild sojourn MILLIE: So I can learn BOTH: Livin' like the other half!