How the other half lives

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
Every waking moment with my heart afire …

Give me the meat without the gravy
I’ll take the oysters 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 carat cronies, phonies
Fair weather friends
I want an “on-the-dole” mate
Soul mate
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 the Hell’s Kitchenette
I’ll turn my dial to rank and file
How the other half
How the other half lives

Millie:
Poor not me, honey
I don’t want those money woes
I’ll marry Paul or David or Rob or Peter
So I can buy my clothes
At Saks 5th Avenue
Bergdorf Goodman too
The privileged few plus you know who
How the other half
How the other half lives

Millie: I’m on the way up!

Dorothy: I’m on the way down!

Millie: It’s a good thing we met in the middle!

Dorothy: Pour me the milk, but hold the honey
Millie: Poor not me honey

Dorothy: Bring on those funny money woes
Millie: I don’t want those money woes

Dorothy: Paying Paul, by robbing Peter
Millie: I’ll marry Paul or David or Rob or Peter

Dorothy: Lay awake to buy my clothes
Millie: So I can buy my clothes

Dorothy: Summer on the Isle of Coney
Millie: At Saks 5th Avenue

Dorothy: Winter in the Hell’s Kitchenette
Millie: Bergdorf Goodman too

Dorothy: A wild sojourn
Millie: So I can learn

Both: Livin’ like the other half!