[JERUSHA]
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 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
'Causе I can't tell her wherе I come from, Daddy
Is that the same as having lied?

For I have shut out the remembrance

[JERUSHA & JERVIS]
'Cause I just wanna be
[JERUSHA]
Like other girls

[BOTH]
Bake lemon pies

[JERUSHA]
Like other girls
Cure disease and write a symphony
And win the Nobel prize
Like other girls

[JERUSHA (JERVIS)]
I bought an evening dress (You can't imagine how it feels)
Oh, glory be!
You can't imagine how it feels (Oh, glory be)
Dressed in gingham all your life
Wearing hand-me-downs from girls who didn't like you (It takes its toll)
It takes its toll
The bitterness of wearing your enemies' clothes

[BOTH]
Eats into your soul

[JERUSHA (JERVIS)]
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 more like those girls)
I know that I should try to fit in somehow
[BOTH]
But I don't think that I can change

[JERUSHA]
And I know you won't believe it

[BOTH]
But I just wanna be

[JERUSHA]
Like other girls

[BOTH]
Get all dressed up

[JERUSHA]
Like other girls

[JERUSHA (JERVIS)]
Become a scientist, a motorist, a suffragette, a methodist (Scientist, a methodist)

[BOTH]
A Fabian
A Freudian
The class valedictorian
[JERUSHA]
Or what else, heaven knows

[JERUSHA (JERVIS)]
Like other girls (Be as sweet)
Like other girls (Be as loved)
Like other girls (Like other girls)