I am in a foreign world

They speak a language of their own

Nobody knows where I have come from daddy

I can't help but feel alone

I am in a foreign world

I am different I am strange

I know that I should try to fit in somehow

But I don't think I can change

And I know you won't believe it

But I just wanna be like other girls

Wear fancy shoes like other girls

Write a literary masterpiece

For scholars to peruse

Like other girls

Sallie McBride is my best friend

I told her that my folks had died

'Cause I can't tell her where I come from daddy

Is that the same as having lied

For I have shut out the remembrance

'Cause I just wanna be like other girls

Make lemon pies like other girls

Cure disease and write a symphony

And win the nobel prize

Like other girls

I bought an evening dress

Oh glory be

You can't imagine how it feels

Dressed in gingham all your life

From girls who didn't like you

It takes it toll

It takes it toll

The bitterness of wearing your enemies' clothes

Eats into your soul

I am in a foreign world

I am in a foreign world

I am different I am strange

I know I should try to be

I know that I should try to be fit in somehow

But I don't think that I can change

And I know you won't believe it

But I just wanna be like other girls

Get all dressed up like other girls

Become a scientist a motorist

A suffragette a Methodist

A Fabian a Freudian

The class valedictorian

Or what else

Heaven knows

Like other girls

To be as sweet

Like other girls

To be as sweet

Like other girls