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Momma Rose
Anybody that stays home is dead
If I die it won't be from sitting

It will be from fighting to get up and get out!
Some people can get a thrill
knitting sweaters and sitting still.
That's okay for some people
who don't know they're alive.

Some people can thrive and bloom
living life in the living room.
That's perfect for some people
of one hundred and five.

But I at least gotta try
when I think of all the sights that I gotta see
and all the places I gotta play,
all the things that I gotta be at.
Come on, papa, what do you say?

Some people can be content
playing bingo and paying rent.
That's peachy for some people,
for some hum-drum people to be,
but some people ain't me!

I had a dream,
a wonderful dream, papa,
all about June in the Orpheum circuit.
Gimme a chance and I know I can work it.

I had a dream.
Just as real as can be, papa.
There I was in Mr. Orpheum's office
and he was saying to me, "Rose,
get yourselves some new orchestrations,
new routines and red velvet curtains.
Get a feathered hat for the baby;
photographs in front of the theatre.
Get an agent and in jig time
you'll be being booked in the big time."

Oh, what a dream.
A wonderful dream, papa.
And all that I need is eighty-eight bucks, papa.
That's what he said, papa.
Only eighty-eight bucks.

Papa
You ain't gettin' eighty-eight cents from me, Rose.

Rose
Well, I'll get it someplace else! But I'll get it! And get my kids out!

Goodbye to blueberry pie.
Good riddance to all the socials I had to go to,
all the lodges I had to play,
all the shriners I said hello to.
Hey, L.A., I'm comin' your way!

Some people sit on their butts;
got the dream, yeah, but not the guts.
That's living for some people,
for some hum-drum people I suppose.
Well, they can stay and rot!
But not Rose!
Last Update: June, 10th 2013

Gypsy Lyrics

  1. Act 1
  2. Overture
  3. May We Entertain You
  4. Some People
  5. Seattle to Los Angeles
  6. Small World
  7. Baby June and Her Newsboys/Let Me Entertain You
  8. Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone
  9. Little Lamb
  10. You'll Never Get Away From Me
  11. Dainty June and Her Farmboys / Broadway
  12. If Momma Was Married
  13. All I Need Is the Girl
  14. Everything's Coming Up Roses
  15. Act 2
  16. Madame Rose's Toreadorables Lyrics 
  17. Together Wherever We Go
  18. You Gotta Get A Gimmick
  19. The Strip
  20. Rose's Turn
  21. Bonus Tracs
  22. Tomorrow's Mother's Day
  23. Small World/Momma's Talkin' Soft
  24. Nice She Ain't
  25. Smile, Girls
  26. Who Needs Him?
  27. Three Wishes For Christmas

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