I am in a foreign world

They speak a languages 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 I think that I can change

And I know you won't believe it

But I just want to 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 up 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 a evening dress

Oh glory be!

You can't imagine how it feel

Dressed in gingham all your life

Wearing hand-me-downs from girls who didn't like you

It takes it tall, the bitterness of wearing your enemie's clothes

Eats into your soul

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 I think that I can change

And I know you won't believe it

But I just want to be like other girls

Get all dressed up like other girls

Become a scientist, a moralist, a sophiologist, a methodist

A fabian, a freudian, the class valedictorian

Or what else heaven knows

Like other girls

Like other girls

Like other girls