Thoroughly Modern Millie Music Score by ELMER BERNSTEIN Musical Numbers Scored by ANDRE PREVIN 1.Thoroughly Modern Millie 2.The Tapioca 3.Babyface 4.Drink La Chaim 5.Jazz Baby 6.Jimmy 7.Do It Again! 8.Poor Butterfly 9.Rose of Washington Square 1.Thoroughly Modern Millie Words and Music by SAMMY CAHN & JAMES VAN HEUSEN Millie: There are those I suppose Think we're mad Heaven knows The world has gone To rack and to ruin What we think is chic, unique and quite adorable They think is odd and sodom and gomorrah-able But the fact is Everything today is thoroughly modern Check your personality Everything today makes yesterday slow Better face reality. It's not insanity Says Vanity Fare In fact, it's stylish To raise your skirts and bob your hair. In a rumble seat, the world is so cozy If the boy is kissable And that tango dance they wouldn't allow Now is quite permissible. Goodbye, good'-goody girl I'm changing and how! So beat the drums Coz here comes thoroughly modern Millie now! Everything today is thoroughly modern Bands are gettin' jazzier Everything today is starting to go Cars are gettin' snazzier Men say it's criminal What women'll do. What they're forgetting is This is Nineteen Twenty-Two. Have you seen the way they kiss in the movies? Isn't it delectable? Painting lips and pencil lining your brow Now is quite respectable. Goodbye good'-goody girl I'm changing and how! So beat the drums Coz here comes thoroughly modern Millie now! 2.The Tapioca Words and Music by SAMMY CAHN & JAMES VAN HEUSEN Jimmy: spoken I was just passing the hotel, going no where, killing time, when I heard your snappy music. Millie: spoken You mean you don't know anyone here? Jimmy: Sure, you. Dance? Millie: Well, I studied ballroom and tap back home, but I'm not up on the latest dances. Jimmy: Good, I always make up my own anyway. Give me a name. Millie: What for? Jimmy: For our new dance! Millie: Gosh, I've never named a dance before, or anything. Jimmy: Well, what did you have for dinner? Millie: Franks. Jimmy: "trying it out" Franks? Franks, franks, franks, franks. No, what else? Millie: Saurkraut. Jimmy: "trying it out" Saurkraut? Saurkraut. No. What else? Millie: Oh, I had tapioca for pudding. Jimmy: Tapioca? Join me in the Tapioca? Everybody tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tapioca, Everybody, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slapioca. If ya got the dap, dap, dap-dap-dappier flappers flap-flap-flappier Everyone is happier when the do the tap tapioca. When they do the flap flapioca. Tap, tap, tap, tapioca, Slap, slap, slap, slapioca, Tap, tap, tap, tap the tapioca. Let's pretend we've got a bowl, we're gonna have some sport. Ha! Add trumpled licks and a rag-time beat, let's say about a quart. Yeah! Ya stir and stir it with your knee, adding a bump or two. Ya heat it, mash it, beat it, smash it, if there's a lump or two. Don't let the temperature drop to many degrees, Or you'll wind up with what is called the frozen tapioca freeze! Everybody, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap tapioca, everybody freeze! Slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap slapioca everybody freeze! 3.Babyface Chorus: Hallelujah, hallelujah! Millie: Babyface, you've got the cutest little Babyface. There is no other one could take your place, Babyface. Chorus: Hallelujah! Millie: You sure have started something, Babyface, I'm up in heaven when I'm in your fond embrace. I didn't need a shove cause I just fell in love With your pretty Baby! Chorus: Hallelujah! Millie: You've got the cutest little! Chorus: Hallelujah! Millie: There's not another one could take your place, Babyface. Chorus: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah... Bass in chorus: You've got the cutest little! Millie: Alleluia I'm up in heaven when I'm alleluia! In your fond embrace. Didn't need a shove, 'cause I fell in love With your pretty Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, Babyface. Chorus: Hallelujah! Millie: Boop-boop-ee-doop! 4.Drink La Chaim Words and Music by SYLVIA NEUFELD SORRY NOT AVAILABLE! 5.Jazz Baby Muzzy: My daddy was a rag-time trombone player, My mommy was a rag-time cabaret-er. They met one day at a tango tea, There was a syncopated wedding, And then came me! Folks think the way I walk is a fad, But it's a birthday present from my mommy and dad-dy. I'm a jazz baby, little jazz baby, that's me. There's something in the tone of a saxophone That makes me do a little wiggle all my own! 'Cause I'm a jazz baby, Full of jazz-bo harmony. That "Walk The Dog" and "Ball The Jack" that caused all the talk Is just a copy of the way I naturally walk! 'Cause I'm a jazz baby, little jazz baby that's me! Rock to sleep while the cradle went to and fro, To and fro to the tune of the tickle-toe. Ever since I started into grow, Love to hear the music playing, see my dear old mammy swayin'! Razz-ma-tazz, that's all I ever knew, All day long I never would get through Jazz-ma-tazz, that's all I want to do, So play me a little jazz!! Jazz baby, full of jazz-bo harmony. The wailin' of the saxes when those fellas go mad Cannot compare with what I got from mommy and dad. So hear this jazz baby, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah... Little jazz Baby, that's me. 6.Jimmy Words and Music by JAY THOMPSON Millie: Jimmy, oh Jimmy, Silly boy, Gee, what a real swell guy. Jimmy, oh Jimmy, Oh, what joy, He makes your troubles fly. His glance has fireworks in it. We kiss, my heart does a whiz-bang, Flip-flop, heaven-for-a-minute. Jimmy, oh Jimmy, Don't you know What I can't quite confess? So coax me, implore me, I promise you won't bore me. Oh, Jimmy, I might say 'Yes'. So coax me, implore me, I promise you won't bore me. Oh, Jimmy, I might ... Jimmy! 7.Do It Again! Muzzy: Oh, do it again! I may say "No, no, no, no, no," But do it again. My lips just ache to have you take The kiss that's waiting for you. You know if you do you won't regret it. Come and get it! Oh, no one is near. I may cry "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!" But no one will hear. My mommy'd scold me 'cause she told me It was naughty, but then, Oh, do it again! Please do it again! Oh, do it again! I may say "No, no, no, no, no," But do it again. My mommy'd scold me 'cause she told me It was naughty, but then, Oh, do it again! Please, do it again! 8.Poor Butterfly Trevor: spoken That Miss Dorothy, Great scot! That Miss Dorothy. Pretty as a peach and skin to beat the band! Perfect little pippen. Millie: spoken Perfect. Trevor:What a dandy little bundle for a fella to cuddle. Millie: Dandy. Trevor: Say, imagine all that sweet softness in your arms, uh? Ah. Millie: Yes, well I'll type up this survey report right away then, Mr. Graydon. Original in five? Trevor: Don't forget the dinner reservation at the plaza. Candle-nook room, quiet corner table for two. I think Miss Dorothy's for the Plaza, don't you? And John, flowers. Millie: There's a florist just around the corner from the hotel, I'll order from them. Trevor: That's usin' the old bean, John. Roses. Pink, plump, long-stemmed, two dozen, in a vase. Millie: sung Poor butterfly, needs the blossoms waiting. Poor butterfly, for she loved him so. spoken Plaza Hotel, please. Candlenook Room. sung The moments pass in to hours, the hours pass into years. spoken Candlenook Room? Mr. Trevor Graydon would like to order a quiet, corner table for two. Tonight, seven-thirty. Thank you. sung And as she smiles through her tears, she murmurs low. The moon and I know that he be faithful. I know he come to me by and by. spoken Flowerbox, please. sung But if he don't come back, Then I never sigh or cry. spoken Flowerbox? Mr. Trevor Graydon would like to order some roses. Two dozen, long-stemmed, pink. On the fat side! sung I just must die, Poor butterfly! 9.Rose of Washington Square Singer: They call me Rose of Washington Square. I'm withering there, in basement air I'm fading. Pose in plain or fancy clothes? They say my turned up nose It seems to please artistic people. Foes, I've plenty of those. With second-hand clothes, and nice long hair! I've got those Broadway vampires last to the mast. I've got no future, but oh! What a past. I'm Rose of Washington Square.