From: “Little Women (Musical)”
How I Am
by
JASON HOWLAND
Lyrics by: MINDI DICKSTEIN
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How I Am
Lyrics by Music by
Mindi Dickstein Jason Howland
Moderately
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Professor Bhaer: She
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asks how I am. And so how am I? My
years in these rooms read -ing He - gel and Kant. My
asks how I am. How can I re - ply? I
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days are the u - su - al days: I wake up; I go out. Time goes
mind is de - vot - ed to thoughts of the mean -ing of life. What more could I
go through my dai - ly rou - tine. I give les - sons; I wait. Time goes
* rit.
* 3rd time only.
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by. My days are ex - act - ly the days I have lived since ar -
want? So why is it late - ly I find I’m un - eas - y all
by. Yet late - ly I find there is pleas - ure in hum - ming a
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riv - ing here. In fact, how I am is a - mazed how this com -forts me
through the night? And why e - ven now does my skin feel ex - plo - sive as
sil - ly tune. And some days I go to the park and I sit there all
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year by year. I work and I eat. Life is muf - fins and
dy - na - mite? Why does my heart pound like a bat - ter - ing
af - ter - noon. Some eve - nings, I swear, I can hear a door
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To Coda
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jam. The house is nice and qui - et now.
ram? How can she ask me how I am?
slam. The house is far too qui - et now.
1.
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That is how I am.
2.
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Five How I am is
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fine!
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Dear Miss March, there is noth - ing dra - mat - ic or new to re - port. This will be
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short. Morn-ing and eve - ning I live in my u - su - al
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way. On the day you re - turn you will see for your -
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self! Tell me, Miss March, are you hap - py so far from the
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clang and the beat of our tur - bu - lent street? Quite of - ten I think of our days in New
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York. Though, of course, since you went I have been quite con -
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tent. Ach! I
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wake in the morn-ing and all that I hear is the ab - sence of sound.
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Yes! My peace is dis - turbed, but the ruck - us is me as my
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thoughts run a - ground. I want-ed a life by my - self in these rooms, but
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now all a - round me, an - oth - er life looms. Who asked her to come and to go and to leave me like
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that? And now she ex - pects me to send her a note? With
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words, if I spoke, that would stick in my throat! Who asked her to change how I live, how I
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think, how I am?
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She
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That is how I am.
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