[JERRY HERMAN, spoken]
David Merrick came to see a performance of Milk and Honey and summoned me to his office. He told me he was working on a musical version of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, the lovely American play about Dolly Levi, that he was interested in me to do the score, but that he wasn't sure if I was American enough

Well, I had to prove to Mr. Merrick that I was Abraham Lincoln and Kate Smith rolled up into one. So I locked myself in my little apartment, and between Friday night and Monday morning, I wrote four songs that fit very neatly into the Mike Stewart script he had handed me. You wouldn't have believed the scene in Mr. Merrick's office on Monday, even if you had seen it in a Judy/Mickey movie. Because, when I finished the fourth song, Mr. Merrick stood up behind his desk and bellowed, "Kid! The show is yours!"

[LEE ROY REAMS]
Out there
There's a world outside of Yonkers
Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby
There's a slick town, Barnaby

Out there
Full of shine and full of sparkle
Close your eyes and see it glisten, Barnaby
Listen, Barnaby

Put on your Sunday clothes, there's lots of world out there
Get out the brilliantine and dime cigars
We're gonna find adventure in the evening air
Girls in white
In a perfumed night
Where the lights are bright as the stars!

Put on your Sunday clothes, we're gonna ride through town
In one of those new horse-drawn open cars
We'll see the shows
At Delmonico's
And we'll close the town in a whirl
But we won't come home until we've kissed a girl!