Original Broadway Cast of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sutton Foster - Not For the Life of Me lyrics

[Original Broadway Cast of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sutton Foster - Not For the Life of Me lyrics]

I studied all the pictures
In magazines and books
I memorized the subway map too
It's one block north to Macy's
And two to Brothers Brooks
Manhattan, I prepared for you

You certainly are diff'rent from what
They have back home
Where nothing's over three stories high
And no one's in a hurry or wants to roam
But, I do, though they wonder why

They said I would soon be good and lonely
They said I would sing the homesick blues
So I always have this ticket in my pocket
A ticket home in my pocket
To do with as I choose

Burn the bridge, bet the store
Baby's coming home no more


Not for the life of me
Break the lock, post my bail
Done my time, I'm out of jail
Not for the life of me

A life that's gotta be more
Than a one-light town
Where the light is always red
Gotta be more than an old ghost town
Where the ghost ain't even dead

Clap-a your hands, just-a-because
Don't you know that where I
Am ain't where I was not for the life of me
Boh doh dee oh not for the life of
Not for the life of not for the life of me!

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