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EVERYTHING’S UP TO DATE IN KANSAS CITY
From the stage show “Oklahoma”
(Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II)

I went to Kansas City on a Friday
By Saturday I learned a thing or two
But up ‘till then I didn’t have an idea
Of what the mod’rn world was comin’ to.
I counted twenty gas buggies goin’ by theirselves
Almost every time I took a walk
An’ then I put my ear to a bell telephone
An’ a strange woman started into talk.
What next! What next?

Everything’s up to date in Kansas City
They gone about as fer as they can go
They went an’ built a skyscraper seven stories high
About as high as a buildin’ orta grow.
Everything’s like a dream in Kansas City
It’s better than a magic lantern show.
You can turn the radiator on whenever you want some heat
With every kind of comfort every house is all complete.
You could walk the privees in the rain and never wet your feet!
They’ve gone about as fer as they can go.
They’ve gone about as fer as they can go!

Everything’s up to date in Kansas City
They’ve gone about as fer as they can go
They got a big theatre they call a burleque
For fifty cents you could see a dandy show!
One of the gals is fat and pink and pretty
As round above as she was round below
I could swear that she was padded from her shoulder to her heel
But then she started dancin’ and her dancin’ made me feel
That every single thing she had was absolutely real!
She went about as fer as she could go
Yes, Sir! She went about as fer as she could go!