Not for the Life of Me/ Thoroughly Modern Millie

from Thoroughly Modern Millie JR. Music by JEAN1NETES0RI Lyrics by DICK SCANLAN

Book adapted by DICK SCANLAN C U E 02 - (The curtain rises on 1922 Manhattan, a platinum version of the Emerald City. We see the silhouette of MILLIE in her Sunday best, a suitcase in each hand, her back to us. Slowly, she turns around.) _ , , , . a Freely but moving forward

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you. You cer-tain-ly are diff-'rent from what they have back home w

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said I would sing the home - sick blues. So I al-ways have this tic-ket in my

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poc-ket; a tic-ket home in my poc-ket to do with as I choose.

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Burn the bridge.- Bet the store.. Ba - by's com - in' home.

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no more._ Not for the life of me.-

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got - ta be more than a one - light town where the light is al - ways red

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Got - ta be more than an old ghost town where the

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Clap - a - your hands. just - a be - cause Don't - cha know that where I am ain't

where I was.. Not for the life of me..

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day is thor - ough-ly mod - ern.. (Check your per-son-al - i-ty.) Ev-'ry-thing to

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(Bet-ter face re-al - i-ty.) day makes yes - ter-day slow. It's not

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in-san - i - ty says Van - i-ty Fair. In fact,

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raise your skirts and bob your hair!—

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raise your skirts and

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bob your hair!.—

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bob your hair!-

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i n n Paint-ing lips and pen - cil l in - ing your brow now is quite re - spect - a-ble.

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Good-bye, good-good - y girl, I'm chang - ing and how, So

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(MILLIE exits, suitcases in hand.) . (some men at pitch) .

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• think is chic, u - nique, and quite a - dor - a-ble,. They

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(MILLIE enters. She is now a full-fledged, head-to-toe modern: bobbed hair and short skirt.)

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