Some people can get a thrill knitting sweaters and sitting still
That´s okay for some people who don´t know they´re alive
Some people can thrive and bloom living life in the living room
That´s perfect for some people of one hundred and five

But I at least gotta try when I think of all the sights
That I gotta see and all the places I gotta play
All the things that I gotta be at
Come on, papa, what do you say?

Some people can be content playing bingo and paying rent
That´s peachy for some people, for some hum-drum people to be
But some people ain´t me!

I had a dream, a wonderful dream, papa
All about June in the Orpheum circuit
Gimme a chance and I know I can work it

I had a dream
Just as real as can be, papa
There I was in Mr. Orpheum´s office and he was saying to me
"Rose, get yourself some new orchestrations
New routines and red velvet curtains

Get a feathered hat for the baby
Photographs in front of the theatre
Get an agent and in jig time
You´ll be being booked in the big time"

Oh, what a dream
A wonderful dream, papa
And all that I need is eighty-eight bucks, papa
That´s what he said, papa
Only eighty-eight bucks

Goodbye to blueberry pie
Good riddance to all the socials I had to go to
All the lodges I had to play, all the shriners I said hello to
Hey, L.A., I´m comin´ your way!

Some people sit on their butts
Got the dream, yeah, but not the guts
That´s living for some people, for some hum-drum people I suppose
Well, they can stay and rot! But not Rose!