Like Other Girls

I am in a foreign world
they speak a languages of their own
nobody knows where I have come from, daddy
I can't help but feel alone

I am in a foreign world
I am different, I am strange
I know that I should try to fit in somehow
but I don't I think that I can change

and I know you won't believe it
but I just want to be like other girls
wear fancy shoes like other girls
write a literary masterpiece
for scholars to peruse
like other girls

Sallie McBride is my best friend
I told her that my folks had died
'cause I can't tell her where I come from, daddy
is that the same as having lied

for I have shut up the remembrance
'cause I just wanna be like other girls
make lemon pies like other girls
cure disease and write a symphony
and win the Nobel prize
like other girls

I bought a evening dress
oh glory be!
you can't imagine how it feel
dressed in gingham all your life
wearing hand-me-downs from girls who didn't like you
it takes it tall, the bitterness of wearing your enemie's clothes
eats into your soul

I am in a foreign world
I am different, I am strange
I know that I should try to fit in somehow
but I don't I think that I can change

and I know you won't believe it
but I just want to be like other girls
get all dressed up like other girls
become a scientist, a moralist, a sophiologist, a methodist
a fabian, a freudian, the class valedictorian
or what else heaven knows
like other girls
like other girls
like other girls