Angela Christian feat. Sutton Foster & Original Broadway Cast of Thoroughly Modern Millie -
Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
How the Other Half Lives
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 class I long to pass
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 -
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
How the other half lives!
I'm on the way up!
I'm on the way down!
It's a good thing we met in the middle!
Pour me the milk but hold the honey (Poor? Not me!)
Bring on those funny money woes (Honey, I don't want those money woes)
Paying Paul by robbing Peter (I'll marry Paul or Dave or Rob or Peter)
Layaway to buy my clothes (So I can buy my clothes at Saks)
Summer on the Isle of Coney (Fifth Avenue)
Winter in Hell's Kitchenette (Bergdorf Goodman, too)
A wild sojourn
So I can learn
Livin' like the other half!
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 class I long to pass
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 -
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
How the other half lives!
I'm on the way up!
I'm on the way down!
It's a good thing we met in the middle!
Pour me the milk but hold the honey (Poor? Not me!)
Bring on those funny money woes (Honey, I don't want those money woes)
Paying Paul by robbing Peter (I'll marry Paul or Dave or Rob or Peter)
Layaway to buy my clothes (So I can buy my clothes at Saks)
Summer on the Isle of Coney (Fifth Avenue)
Winter in Hell's Kitchenette (Bergdorf Goodman, too)
A wild sojourn
So I can learn
Livin' like the other half!
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Scanlan, Jeanine Tesori
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Other Album Tracks
- Overture
- Not for the Life of Me
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Not for the Life of Me (Reprise)
- How the Other Half Lives
- Not for the Life of Me (Reprise)
- The Speed Test
- They Don't Know
- The Nutty Cracker Suite
- What Do I Need with Love
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