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MEN: There are those, I suppose, Think we're mad-- Heaven knows The world has gone To wreck and to ruin. WOMEN: What we think is chic, unique and quite adorable, They think is odd and Sodom-and-Gammorable! MILLIE: But the fact is: Everything today is thoroughly modern! CHORUS: Check your personality! MILLIE: Everything today makes yesterday slow! Letras de canciones CHORUS: Better face reality! MILLIE: It's not insanity Says Vanity Fair. In fact, it's stylish to raise your skirts and bob your hair! CHORUS WOMEN: Raise your skirts and bob your hair! MILLIE: Have you seen the way they kiss in the movies? CHORUS MEN: Isn't it delictible? ALL WOMEN: Painting lips and pencil-lining your brow Now is quite respectable. MILLIE: Goodbye, good-goody girl! I'm changing, and how! ALL: So beat the drums 'cause here comes Thoroughly modern Millie now! What we think is chic, unique and quite adorable They think is odd and Sodom-and-Gammorable! But the fact is: Everything today is thoroughly modern! CHORUS MEN: Bands are getting jazzier! ALL: Everything today is starting to go! CHORUS WOMEN: Cars are getting snazzier! ALL: Men say, "It's criminal What women'll do!" What they're forgetting is MILLIE: This is nineteen twenty-two! (Dance break) ALL: Goodbye, good-goody girl! I'm changing, and how! MILLIE: I'm changing, and how! ALL: So beat the drums 'cause here comes thoroughly... Hot off the press! One step in the Jazz Age! Whoopee, baby! We're so thoroughly Modern... MILLIE: Millie ALL: Now! From Letras Mania