Step On Out

Lyrics

[ARDEN GIRL] Goodnight, Mister Arden! [TOMMY, spoken] Very funny [ARDEN GIRL] Goodnight, Mister Arden! [TOMMY, spoken] A joke's a joke [MISS BEAM] Working late, Mister Arden? [TOMMY, spoken] For Christ's sake! (singing) This just ain't my day... (spoken) Sorry, Nancy Ladies, it's after five, who's up for a cocktail?! (singing) Step on out, take Manhattan When a tomcat goes tomcattin' Pink it ain't, when I repaint the town! Step on out with a spender Gonna pull an all-night bender Stay up late until we close the last bartender down! Wanna mingle with the fast crowd! Quick flings! Good times! No strings! Wedded bliss? What baloney! Man ain't made for matrimony! Ta-ta-toots! Tough luck, Mama I'm a louse, no doubt! But when you step on me, old lady I step on out! [HARRY, spoken] I took only what belongs to me: my cloisonné inkwell, my Tiffany paperweight... oh, and my self-respect [HELENA, spoken] Like a son I treat you, and this is how you repay me, a knife in the heart? [HARRY, spoken] If you need me, try the Red Door [HELENA, spoken] No, Harry, you would never... You mustn't! Harry, HARRY! [HARRY] Step on out, time for high-balls Taken crap up to my eyeballs! [HARRY & TOMMY] Seize the day, before the night is through! [ARDEN GIRLS] Doo-wah, doo-wah, scoodley-doodley-doo! [TOMMY] Step on out, wave a fiver Hail a cab and tell the driver: "Up to Harlem's cotton club, and make it snappy too!" [HARRY] Wanna mingle where the wine goes [ARDEN GIRLS] Lights blaze! [TOMMY] Satchmo's horn plays! [HARRY] She's the boss [TOMMY] No one needs me [TOMMY & HARRY] So I bite the hand that feeds me! [TOMMY] Call me Cad! [HARRY] Call me callow, shallow gad-about! [TOMMY & HARRY] But when you step on me, old lady I step on out! [MISS BEAM, spoken] You need to dry out in the sauna [TOMMY] Why so soon, come on, girlie? Too late now to get home early Give me a restorative Miss Arden doesn't give! Sick of living where the hope dies Hearts ache, love lies, balls break Win me one, for the gipper I'm too blind to find my zipper [ELIZABETH, spoken] I think it's best if you take a room at the Waldorf, my lawyer will contact you tomorrow [TOMMY] Slap my face, black my blue eye. Do I give a damn? At least I never sold you out, no, ma'am! [HARRY] My life belongs to me [TOMMY] A low-down stinking lout! [TOMMY & HARRY] The man you hoped I'd be? So sorry He just stepped out!