Thoroughly Modern Millie

(as sung by Sutton Foster et al in the recent Broadway production)

There are those
There are those
I suppose I suppose
Think we're mad
Think we're mad
Heaven knows
Heaven knows

The world has gone
To rack and to ruin

What we think is chic, unique and quite adorable
They think is odd and sodom and gomorrah-able

But the fact is
Everything today is thoroughly modern
Check your personality
Everything today makes yesterday slow
Better face reality.

It's not insanity
Says Vanity Fair
In fact, it's stylish
To raise your skirts and bob your hair.
raise your skirts and bob your hair.

Have you seen the way they kiss in the movies?
Isn't it delectable?
Painting lips and pencil lining your brow
Now is quite respectable.

Goodbye good'-goody girl
I'm changing and how!
So beat the drums
Coz here comes thoroughly modern
Millie now!

What we think is chic, unique and quite adorable
They think is odd and sodom and gomorrah-able

But the fact is
Everything today is thoroughly modern
Bands are gettin' jazzier

Everything today is starting to go
Cars are gettin' snazzier
Men say it's criminal
What women'll do.
What they're forgetting is

This is Nineteen Twenty-Two.

Goodbye good'-goody girl
I'm changing and how!

I'm changing and how!

So beat the drums Coz here comes thoroughly modern

Millie now!

Demo version

Company:

There are those
I suppose I suppose
Think we're mad
Heaven knows
The world has gone
To rack and to ruin

What we think is chic, unique and quite adorable
They think is odd and sodom and gomorrah-able

Millie:

But the fact is
Everything today is thoroughly modern
Check your personality
Everything today makes yesterday slow
Better face reality.

It's not insanity
Says Vanity Fair
In fact, it's stylish
To raise your skirts and bob your hair.

In a rumble seat the world is so cosy - if the boy is kissable
And that tango dance they wouldn't allow - now it's quite permissible!
Goodbye good'-goody girl
I'm changing and how!
So beat the drums
Coz here comes thoroughly modern Millie now!

Company:

Sex and booze, jazz and news
We don't know what to choose
That's the way we live in Manhattan
Home at last, [skip the past?]
Though our folks, are aghast
They won't see, our this'n and that'n.
What we think is new and truly irresistible

Millie:
They think is scandal and cease and desistible

Company:
But the fact is
Everything today is thoroughly modern

Millie:
Bands are gettin' jazzier

Company:
Everything today is starting to go

Millie:
Cars are gettin' snazzier

Company:
Men say it's criminal
What women'll do.
What they're forgetting is

It's not insanity
Says Vanity Fair

Millie:
In fact, it's stylish
To raise your skirts and bob your hair.
raise your skirts and bob your hair etc