Some people can get a thrill
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Knitting sweaters and sitting still
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That's OK for some people
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Who don't know they're alive
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Some people can thrive and bloom
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Living life in the living room
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That's perfect for some people
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Of one hundred and five
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But I at least gotta try
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When I think of
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All the sights that I gotta see
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All the places I gotta play
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All the things I gotta be at
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Come on Papa
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What do you say?
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Some people can be content
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Playing bingo and paying rent
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That's peachy for some people
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For some hum-drum people to be
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But some people ain't me!
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I had a dream
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A wonderful dream, Papa
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All about June in the Orpheum Circuit
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Gimme a chance and I know I can work it! I had a dream
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Just as real as can be, Papa
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There I was in Mr. Orpheum's office
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And he was saying to me
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"Rose, get yourself some new orchestrations
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New routines and red velvet curtains
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Get a feathered hat for the baby
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Photographs in front of the theater
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Get an agent and in jig time
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You'll be being booked in the big time!"
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Oh, what a dream!
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A wonderful dream, Papa!
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And all that I need is eighty-eight bucks, Papa
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That's what he said
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Only eighty-eight bucks
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**"you ain't getting eighty-eight cents from me, Rose"
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Well I'll get it someplace else! But I'll get it! And I'll get my kids out!"**
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Goodbye to blueberry pie!
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Good riddance to all the socials I had to go to
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All the lodges I had to play
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All the shruners I said hello to
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Hey L.A. I'm comin' your way!
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Some people sit on their butts
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Got the dream, Yeah, but not the guts
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That's living for some people
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For some hum-drum people
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I suppose
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Well, they can stay and rot!
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But not Rose!!!
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**- Isn't said or sung in the song, but in the lyrics
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Some People {From Gypsy}
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| Linda Eder |
